Ask HN: What do you use to track your todo's?

Pomotodo

I use Apple's Notes app. It doesn't really need to be more complicated than that.

Google Keep as a write-only TODO. A sheet of paper with a pen with a few entries for my "tasks-of-the-day", and I strike any "done" entry.

Didn't find anything more efficient.

somefile.rst

Which is plain text, and vim knows how to display headings and such. I never render it, .rst is just for syntax highlighting in vim. My current file is 2742 lines, and goes back to Sept. 2014.

I have the following shell script:

  dt="$1" || "today"
  date --date="$dt" +"%Y-%m-%d %a"
  echo "--------------"
  echo "- "
  echo

I call it from vim:

  :r!newday

or:

  :r!newday tomorrow

Which creates this, which I then fill in as I go:

  2016-04-03 Sun
  --------------
  - Commented on HN.
  - > Make another comment on HN.

A plain bullet records what I did. A bullet followed by '>' means something I need to do today (or tomorrow). Most of the time when I complete a todo, I just remove the '>'. If it's still there at the end of the day I move it to the next day's entry. In the manner of .rst, I sometimes have sub-bullets.

A new entry goes at the top. I have a few undated long-ish term entries at the very top.

That's for my work life. For my personal life I just sit on the couch and wait for emails from my ex-wife.

Vim with some todo plugins, Emacs orgmode, but there are also some lists which I need daily on mobile, for that purpose I use Wunderlist with abbreviated descriptions ( Yea I know I'm paranoid, but hey it's in the cloud and Microsoft owns it )