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I use https://everyday.app as a habit tracker :P It is actually my business. It started as a side-project but I kept working on it and now I make a decent living from it. So I like I can keep tweaking it to adapt to my personal system and feedback I get :p
I use https://everyday.app as a habit tracker :P It is actually my business. It started as a side-project but I kept working on it and now I make a decent living from it. So I like I can keep tweaking it to adapt to my personal system and feedback I get :p
I’ve been using https://akiflow.com/ for tasks for several months now (I switched from Omnifocus) and I love it.
I also use https://one-sec.app/ on my phone to add friction to opening apps I want to limit time on and try reduce distractions.
The most simple but one of the most effective tricks I learned from an "old sweat" when I was a green junior dev just starting out... keep a folder called notes, and each day create a date-numbered file in the format YYYYMMDD.txt. Put any code snippets, git links, lessons learned, meeting minutes or basically anything interesting in there each day. Then to access it - you can bash script search, e.g., to find anythin…
I built dly (https://github.com/wsw70/dly) to make one line notes taking faster.
https://histre.com/ (disclaimer: founder) as my knowledge store, especially for web research. I take notes and make highlights with it. Besides that, I use Emacs org-mode pretty heavily. I use https://crushentropy.com/ (also mine) to plan my day at high resolution. I use GoodNotes on iPad to write down thoughts when I get my coffee.
https://histre.com/ (disclaimer: founder) as my knowledge store, especially for web research. I take notes and make highlights with it. Besides that, I use Emacs org-mode pretty heavily. I use https://crushentropy.com/ (also mine) to plan my day at high resolution. I use GoodNotes on iPad to write down thoughts when I get my coffee.
CrushEntropy is awesome, really nice work on it! I came across it a year or so ago, have used it a bunch of times!
As context: I live with a partner and run a SaaS with a handful of contractors. I think this is important context, because most productivity tools and systems fall down when you have to introduce state outside of your control, and half your time is spent syncing your to-do list with your company's JIRA board or whatever. I run my life pretty much entirely inside of Things ( https://culturedcode.com/things/ ). It has…
I always thought it was funny that there was a non-serious quip in the universal capture segment that you could someday say:
“Computer! Yes David? I need milk! Yes David.”
If you set an Alexa’s wake word to “computer,” that joke is now basically reality.
For work notes, a Markdown file in VS Code. I have my to-do list in Markdown format like this:
Jun 2
* [~] Task A
* [x] Task B
* [ ] Task B
This free-form (but still semi-structured) helps me add long free text notes to a task and thoughts-in-progress, which most Todo lists don't really support.
Finally, I use Logseq to record fragments in a topic area that I'm ideating or trying to learn. Logseq's bullet point as an element is reminiscent of Lisp, where everything are atoms and lists. The list is a very powerful data structure, and certainly Logseq's querying and tagging abilities have enabled me to combine the "dump it first, sort it later" workflow to the "let's try to make sense of everything I dumped" without a lot of work needed to pre-tag everything.
I've always been a fan of "dump it first, sort it later" because it doesn't presume any kind of structure (most people tend to overinvest in developing a system). With Logseq, you can pretty much freely dump without developing a system that AND STILL be able to retrieve information in a useful way. Such is the power of the list (as most Lispers already know).
It replaced an astonishing number of individual apps. Apart from using it as an IDE, I also have a wiki-style vault where I add ideas, useful commands, to do lists, recipes, lecture notes, etc. I integrate the text files in various bash scripts, e.g for generating notifications related to my to do list. And staying in the terminal dramatically reduces exposure to distractions and dopamine spikes. It also encourages a hands-on attitude, rather than passive consumption.