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Other times I use notes (typically Apple Notes just because it's auto-synced between mac and iphone, but I don't really care about the app) to create small lists of things I really have to do in order, and then I check them along the way.
I use a lot of checklists, mostly via emacs org-mode. Here's an example of my daily sales workflow (B2B SaaS; formatting didn't survive very well, sorry): * Daily work DONE Check commission goal for EOY and update DONE Start airtable timing DONE Log in to TalkDesk (reboot, make sure active) DONE Sales startup * DONE select rotating priority of the day, tag with dailyFocus * DONE check calendar for any major events un…
Wow this is a very good idea. FYI if you indent the whole thing with 4 spaces (each line), then *** HN keeps the formatting ^-> see?
But I like the original formatting better because lines wrap on narrow viewports (i.e. phones). It's frustratingly common that people post quotes with the code-snippet syntax and the lines are so long that stuff is nearly unreadable on mobile, unless you are masochistic and like reading in a scrolling viewport that only shows 40% of the line width at each time.
While building stock trading robots, essentially I am automating check lists from the stock selection, trough the trade until the exit... No guess work, can be precisely back tested, etc... It literally did transform my life and made me free and independent...
Hey folks, I'm building a web app where you create and work through checklists (part of a larger system for service companies that need procedures and work instructions for their service technicians). I'm not going to shamelessly promote it here. Messsage me if you want to try it come demo time.
Then I can see all of my next action tasks I can do at my current location.
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Could you elaborate on how you manage this with org-mode? Do you have to manually reset the lists every evening?
Not for TODO items, but org-mode specifically has the RESET_CHECK_BOXES property which will reset the checkboxes when a repeating task goes back to it's start state (eg, habits). TODO items can be repeating and there is a way to make it so that a parent heading will switch to DONE when all sub-entries are done (and that parent heading can be repeating as well). Just to add my two cents to the conversation, it's a per…
While building stock trading robots, essentially I am automating check lists from the stock selection, trough the trade until the exit... No guess work, can be precisely back tested, etc... It literally did transform my life and made me free and independent...
All programming is "automating check lists", when you think about it.
Over the course of my career in financial software development I've participated in several large production events where an upgraded or new application would be deployed overnight to servers that require substantial uptime while serving millions of users. We minimize human error by developing the Go-Live checklist several weeks in advance from tasks discovered during "dry-runs" where we practice the deploy process on similar hardware with similar data. Task durations are recorded during the last dry-run to store in the checklist.
The checklist itself is pretty simple and is stored in a spreadsheet with these columns:
StartTime Duration CompletedTime ResponsibleParty TaskDescription
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Could you elaborate on how you manage this with org-mode? Do you have to manually reset the lists every evening?
Not for TODO items, but org-mode specifically has the RESET_CHECK_BOXES property which will reset the checkboxes when a repeating task goes back to it's start state (eg, habits). TODO items can be repeating and there is a way to make it so that a parent heading will switch to DONE when all sub-entries are done (and that parent heading can be repeating as well). Just to add my two cents to the conversation, it's a per…
There's a good archive of Marc Andreessen's blog posts here: http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_personal_productivity.html One section is dedicated to his general process on checklists, which I find extremely interesting and have started seeing my increased productivity since adopting it a few months ago.