What tools do you use to keep track of your daily tasks, projects, and other obligations?
What do you like about these tools and what would you like to change?
Ask HN: What productivity tools do you use?
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#2-Clickup for Agile and Project Management (separate folders for myself and my team).
- Google Calendar and separate family, personal and work obligations, helps myself (and others) respect my time. I prepare the week's schedule Sunday night and review the next day's every night to prepare myself for what I have tomorrow.
Simple and works for me.
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#3Mostly distraction minimizers: [1],[2].
Everything else (TODOs, notes, etc.) becomes much easier without social media/news/etc. in the background.
[1] SelfControl -- website blocker for Mac, cannot be bypassed. https://selfcontrolapp.com/
[2] News Feed Eradicator extension -- hide social feeds when going on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram, etc., to prevent being sucked into endless scrolling when you just go there for one thing. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/news-feed-era...
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#4Microsoft Outlook. Only because it has not changed in 25 years (Outlook 97 looks eerily similar to Outlook 365).
There is no worse productivity killer than change for the sake of change (looking at you Google).
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#5https://histre.com/ (disclaimer: founder) as my knowledge store, especially for web research. I take notes and make highlights with it.
Besides that, I use Emacs org-mode pretty heavily.
I use https://crushentropy.com/ (also mine) to plan my day at high resolution.
I use GoodNotes on iPad to write down thoughts when I get my coffee.
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#6Amazing Marvin. It has incredible configurability and a broad feature set. Where it really shines is its ability (contra the David Allen dogma) to help you plan your day/week. The awesome thing about its configurability is that you can start simple and work your way up to more and more sophisticated use of it.
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#7I like to keep it simple. Apple Notes and Notion. Too easy to get hung up on tooling, rather than working on things that matter.
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#8Things 3. I have one combined inbox into which all my tasks and obligations go. And when I get the time, these are organised into projects and things that are recurring get setup as recurring tasks.
And it synchs across all my devices, so I have access to this single todo list everywhere.
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#9I use Todoist for my own things, and Trello for collaborative things.
I really love Todoist. It's really simple to enter tasks -- extremely low friction with browser extensions and Android widgets, etc. It has all the features I want in a tool like this -- simple tasks, sub tasks, categorization, tagging, attachments, recurring tasks, prioritization, and apps/widgets/integrations galore. And it's free, or cheap for the pro version (I do pay, like $50/year).
It also gives great flexibility with a simple query language to create custom views/filters. Like work tasks due in the next 3 days, etc.
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#10A notebook and pen seems to do the trick. In the beginning of the day, write an entry of what I'll aim to accomplish and when. At the end of the day, judge myself on my productivity and write a plan for the next day. That alone has been a force multiplier of productivity for me
Also remembering to have fun and enjoy life always (surprisingly!) seems to help