It's silly, but after trying all kinds of different todo systems, the most effective I've found is an "Ideas" Google Doc. Psychologically, I think my mind prefers that the doc is a list of ideas that are optional rather than a list of mandatory todos.
Ask HN: What software do you depend on for day-to-day tasks?
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Re: Ask HN: What software do you depend on for day-to-day tasks?
#22If your day to day tasks refer to things not necessarily related to programming, see my question from yesterday (loads of links in the replies): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12794292
For work related things (I'm an embedded developer, with some side projects, work-work is on Windows with some Linux servers, personal stuff I use a combination of Ubuntu and OSX):
- GitLab CE (self hosted)
- Jira (self hosted)
- DokuWiki
- PyCharm
- Eclipse
- MobaXterm (Windows terminal program)
- SourceTree (Windows/OSX Git GUI)
- tmux
- vim
- jupyter notebook (self hosted)
- any.do (migrating away from this)
- Realterm (terminal emulator for serial comms)
- HipChat