Checkout this book called The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Take a look at what they've written on their site when you have time; it's more thought out than you might expect. The gist is that they make money by a) selling a monthly subscription to give you more options and features, and b) charging you the amounts too small to motivate you so you can get up to the amounts that you take seriously. They've set up their pricing so that you will pay half of the motivating amount…
do you have any particular blogposts in mind that go into details of what you explained here?
They've written a lot. I suggest the early essays on akrasia.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?
#213I also struggled with sticking to bigger goals.
Just wrote a post about the approach that worked for me -- http://claudiu.dragulin.com/2017/03/14/how-to-align-your-dai...
Short version: - Make a list on a sheet of paper with clear, simple, manageable steps to your goal - Have it on your desk next to you at all times - Watch the magic happen
I also tried different tools and software-based approaches (reminders, checklists, etc) but I found that they were mostly distracting.
The simpler the solution, the better -- therefore, plain sheet of paper.
Key thing here was to always have it in front of me, next to any other todo list I may have for the day. As long as I did that, I never had to worry about updating my daily todos, or aligning them with my goal, or anything like that.
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#214Investigate OKRs (Objectives and Key Results). A lot of tech companies use them internally to align objectives and work across the organization and all teams.
I work solo (as a freelancer and solopreneur) and I have found OKRs invaluable in aligning my weekly and daily work to my quarterly objectives (and in keeping me honest about my capacity).
Recently, after moving in this direction in a more ad hoc manner, I started using http://weekdone.com to bring some it together and streamline things (WD is built around quarterly OKRs and weekly accomplishments tied to those KRs). The process has been wonderful.
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#215A critical factor of success in achieving long term goals is to schedule corresponding daily todos on a calendar. Because if something isn't either obviously urgent or scheduled on a calendar, it never gets done. For this reason, I sorely miss the Timeful app (bought and shut down by Google) which nailed the process perfectly, integrating one-off todos, habits (e.g. 3 runs/week) and calendar management in a single sy…
Have you tried SkedPal in 2017? The UX is completely revamped.
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#216Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?
#217Just signed up for answering this. I recently had the same issue and found a fantastic (and hackable via JS/CSS!) tool: https://gingkoapp.com/app
Highly recommended. I use it for creating my daily todos out of life goals (I use the template/concept of Ray Dalio's Principles (https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsd...) for this).
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#218David Allen's getting things done hands down. You don't even need to read the book to implement it, although it's a great read. here's the 15-minute summary that will get you going right now - https://hamberg.no/gtd/ - I have used Trello to implement it - here's a screenshot. http://i.imgur.com/dbH8yGq.png specifically answering your question - this framework makes you regularly review your task list and ensures that…
The problem with GTD is that it explicitly discourages you to schedule tasks at a specific time unless strictly necessary : you're always supposed to do whatever is "next" in the "context" you're in. You're never done, and this can be taxing and make you want to give up. Newer research (Dan Ariely's IIRC) has shown that having tasks on the calendar improves the chances of actually doing a realistic number of them.
GTD has tickler files.
Easiest way to handle this is a seperate calendar in Outlook or Google Calendar. Set recurring reminders for a day of the month. Done.
The fancy tools can be a real distraction. Start with something cheap and easy and build the habit.
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#219I made a web app exactly for this- for staying focused on your most important 1-year goal. It reminds you of your goal in every new browser tab (with the accompanying browser extension), so that your goal always stays top-of-mind. It also reminds you to record your daily progress and to track your goal-related habits. It has other productivity tools as well (pomodoro timer; habit tracker; brainstorm tool) all dedicat…
This looks pretty much what I'm after. Do you offer any sort of data export?
I've added a data export feature for journals, habits, and pomodoro sessions.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long term goals?
#220A critical factor of success in achieving long term goals is to schedule corresponding daily todos on a calendar. Because if something isn't either obviously urgent or scheduled on a calendar, it never gets done. For this reason, I sorely miss the Timeful app (bought and shut down by Google) which nailed the process perfectly, integrating one-off todos, habits (e.g. 3 runs/week) and calendar management in a single sy…
> something as simple as drag+dropping todos onto a calendar at a specific time of the day
moo.do just added that as a new feature. I've not logged back in to try it again but it might be worth having a look at?