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Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?

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Sloppily I leave it all in trello mon,tues,etc... Each day had a check list for production. Each Monday I reset it all. I don’t love it but it works.

Currently doing exactly that, too, but not very happy with it. - As I'm currently trying to get more into web development and looking for a sideproject I thought doing a "Trello clone" focused on this particular approach could be fun. Any non-obvious, specific features you would like to have?

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?

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post #30
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ...the habits of capturing tasks when off desktop. * email to myself from my phone * pen and small paper notebook I put captured info in appropriate org files when I'm at the desktop.

I add a entry in my Google calendar from either my phone or my home PC. Next day at work, I will see it on my phone.

how do you manage items you don't get to? and how useful to you would data of task completion by type, time, etc be?

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?

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I use Spark to have all my mails in 1 place. I could do it with Apple Mail as well but for some reason I like Spark more. It also contains a build in calendar. And thanks to it's syncing feature whenever I'm on a new device I just need to log in with 1 email and everything is synced.

As for my todo's I use Things. I tried to make as much use of Area's and Projects as I can to split up my todo list in a logical sense.

For notes I use the Bear Notes app. Thanks to it's # tag style structure I can easily flesh out my own dir structure on it.

Last but not least: paper + pen. Nothing beats that when I'm working on a feature and I need to keep track of todo's that still need done. All of these todo's are done by the end of the feature off course. Nothing long term on paper.

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?

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i use workflowy. [0] it is an incredible tool that lets you build a tree of things to do or note. it's been helping me keep my mind clear as to what to do next.

i have my phone and mac calendars synced so i don't have any schedule conflicts and keep track of events easily.

[0] https://workflowy.com

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?

#37
post #23

Sloppily I leave it all in trello mon,tues,etc... Each day had a check list for production. Each Monday I reset it all. I don’t love it but it works.

Currently doing exactly that, too, but not very happy with it. - As I'm currently trying to get more into web development and looking for a sideproject I thought doing a "Trello clone" focused on this particular approach could be fun. Any non-obvious, specific features you would like to have?

I would like to see a calendar organized as cards.

I don’t know what that means exactly.

Re: Ask HN: What tools do you use for good habits/performance?

#38
post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I add a entry in my Google calendar from either my phone or my home PC. Next day at work, I will see it on my phone.

how do you manage items you don't get to? and how useful to you would data of task completion by type, time, etc be?

The calendar entry is just a reminder, not an appointment. By the way, I also use 'Keep' than allow sharing notes between PC and phone.
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