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Ask HN: How do you organize life with your partner?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you organize life with your partner?

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Notion has been a solid A- for shared to-dos, bookmark lists, recipes, trip planning details, etc, which covers most of our shared lives. The main issue with Notion is that mobile syncing can be very slow when we're out in the world, so using it to distribute a shopping list while we're at a grocery store, for example, has been unreliable.

For actual scheduled events, we just share our personal Google calendars with each other and invite each other to mutual events. No issues there.

The largest technical issue currently is just organizing personal media in a reasonable way. We're in the in Apple ecosystem so shared albums have generally worked for photos and videos, but it's clunky at best and doesn't cover other media or documents.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organize life with your partner?

#22

The only shared resource is a whiteboard on the fridge. It has immediate lists (ie: Phoned 3 plumbers, these are quotes for work to be done and phone number.) and immediate purchase lists (milk, eggs, prescriptions) and immediate ToDos (call Aunt Tracey re:insider trading). Small whiteboard means it gets cleared and refreshed frequently. I schedule myself a week at a time, and she prefers a month at a time. So before…

I knew I shouldn’t have trusted those stock tips from Aunt Tracey…

A whiteboard on the fridge is what we use too because it’s something we see several times a day without fail which has been a huge help for my ADHD too.

We tried shared systems like Notion and found we spent more time tinkering with the things instead of using the things.

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