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taskwarrior on Linux shell, but also for work. I'm kind of meditating every day over it for a while, doing some adjustments, until I get myself to do something.
+1 for daily meditation (and task list reflection)
I let them pile up into a big anxious horror too repulsive to even approach until absolutely necessary, at which point I sloppily and with great frustration do the very least I can to somehow postpone the ever-escalating disaster that will be my personal undoing. You mean you think there's another way?
To say it in less poetic English than OP; I just don't do them (well, a bit, but could've just as well not've done them) in the end. But do stress about them first.
I let them pile up into a big anxious horror too repulsive to even approach until absolutely necessary, at which point I sloppily and with great frustration do the very least I can to somehow postpone the ever-escalating disaster that will be my personal undoing. You mean you think there's another way?
But seriously: I routinize. Saturday is cleaning day, every four days I go get groceries(our fridge is rather small).
Combination of Todoist [1] and Google Calendar. To make up for my poor memory, I've started to put everything I have to do in them. For example, I have annually recurring tasks in Todoist to get Father's/Mother's Day gifts two weeks before the actual days and then separate tasks to call my parents on the actual days. While it has been very effective for me, it might be leading to a Google-like effect [2] where my mem…
I can't find it right now, the Google results show alot of well-ranked SEO-optimised sites instead about Alzheimer.
Trello. My wife uses it as well. It sounds silly at first to use something so engineering/workplace minded in a relationship, but it actually works really well for us because my wife and I have two very different styles of task management (and as newlyweds, we needed to quickly figure out a workable system!) Her strategy is to break all tasks into little manageable chunks and complete them over a period of weeks. My…
We started using Asana so that we could stop having nervous breakdowns every week. It worked. Now we use it for stuff like coordinating anything that doesn't fit on a notecard. Shopping lists generally are just on a kitchen whiteboard and you take a pic before you leave.
I let them pile up into a big anxious horror too repulsive to even approach until absolutely necessary, at which point I sloppily and with great frustration do the very least I can to somehow postpone the ever-escalating disaster that will be my personal undoing. You mean you think there's another way?