Ask HN: How do you organise/integrate all the information in your life?

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- Bullet Journal

Major tasks, journaling, and goal tracking in a Bullet Journal on a per-day basis. Monthly goal lists live in a separate entry, and daily scheduling happens via a month page. Most self-driven work comes in through here, and I'll usually keep this open nearby while I'm working. The physicality of the journal helps a ton.

- Gmail

Inbox-as-todolist. "Starred first" view allows top priority tasks to be visually distinct. Most work from other people comes in through here, however it's really convenient to schedule or bounce things to the near future. Lots of people use Boomerang for this but I prefer followupthen.com - I can send/fwd an email to "tuesday", "january" or "3weeks" @fut.io and it pops back into my inbox that exact morning.

- Google Keep

Random unassigned tasks live in Google Keep, the Android "OK Google - Note to self, get new shoes" voice command saves directly into Keep. This is extremely convenient as a place to store random nagging thoughts while walking down the street. Having a Keep widget on my homescreens ensures that I see the list often.

Now I just keep everything in plain text and aliased it to 'tj' (todays journal).

alias tj="touch ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org && code ~/Dropbox/journal/$(date +%d-%m-%Y).org"

Effortless backups as well (and as a side benefit the NSA now knows I need to look at better ways of handling css in packages pulled in from npm etc).

Then for every task I would ever like to do at some point in the future, from bucket lists type things to project tasks which aren't yet scheduled, I have a huge WorkFlowy list.

Then for ToDo that I'be actually committed myself to I actually use Google Sheets where each mini-project has its own row with the next action defined and a history of all activities in the context of that project (both previous next actions and other things I did for that project) on the rest of the column. That allows me to keep a 'narrative' of each projects and to group them by meaningful time horizons (i.e. on a specific day this week, next week, the week after, the month after etc.)

This sheet works really well for me together with some Keyboard Maestro macros and allowed me to grow my perfect system but it is definitely time for turning that into a proper app though.

Whenever I get around to making that app I'd also love to include daily, weekly and monthly checklist/self-questionnaires/journals for additional level of planning structure.