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After years of failed attempts I gave up trying to organize everything and started to brutally eliminate most of it. It has been pretty liberating.
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Can you set up phone alarms/reminders with org-agenda or something similar?
I can think of two easy solutions. One would be to synchronize Google Calendar and org-agenda and let Google Calendar manage the alarms/reminders in the phone. This already exists. The other solution would be to develop an app which polls emacs/org-mode for alarms/reminders. AFAIK this doesn't exist but it would be pretty easy to make.
Emacs. - Todo lists and reminders. org-agenda. - Bookmark lists. org-capture and org-protocol. - Kanban boards. I don't use this, but kanban.el. - Wiki. Org-mode files and grep/ag with helm. - Financial tools. ledger. - Calendar/reminders. Org-agenda. - Files on disk. dired, org-mode. - General notes. Org-mode. - Literate programming. org-babel. - Mail. mu4e. - rss. elfeed, gnus, or rss2email. - git. magit. - irc. er…
Org-Mode is the one thing that makes me want to move from vim to emacs.. but I just don't feel like investing the time in getting proficient with emacs at this stage.
* Emacs Orgmode
* nvPy (https://github.com/cpbotha/nvpy)
* Asciidoctor files
* Gnumeric
GTF(Getting Things Done) method with OmniFocus Boagworld has a great video on his setup and how it all works: https://boagworld.com/working-in-web/omnifocus-2/ Getting things done book: https://www.amazon.com/Getting-Things-Done-Stress-Free-Produ... OmniFocus: https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus
Technically they could easily sync via iCloud and encrypt the stored data, but of course for financial reasons companies prefer to be able to access and sell all your data...
After trying many different options, I am sticking with org-mode (encrypted with ELPA) + dropbox or syncthing for now. I schedule weekly sessions (usually on Sundays) to sort out all information, check if my TODO items are done or blocked and make sure all my tagging is consistent. Only exception is when I am on the go and I want to take quick notes on my phone. For this I use google keep, making the notes sticky unt…
For thhe mobile part, I'd suggest you look into MobileOrg. However, it was not a good fit for me, so I am now running emacs in Termux (on Android and I like it very much.
There was a great thread some time ago on HN about PKB (personal knowledge base). You might find there a lot of info. It prompted me to look for new solutions, I made a good progress but I'm still not happy. The best thing I use and can recommend is TiddlyWiki. I keep it in Dropbox so I can access it on mobile.
I use Wunderlist for ToDos. Rest of the info I store in .txt files in a folder. I am not a busy man :)
I have a folder called "daypages" in my dropbox. Each day in my life becomes a file in this folder. Today's is "daypages/2016-10-26.org" That's about it. I don't really organize by project much.
Each day typically covers the tasks that I intend to get done that day, along with places I've been / friends I've met. The occasional tearful journal entry punctuates the otherwise mundane. Every morning, I spend a few minutes arranging today's daypage and rescuing forgotten tasks from yesterday.
No matter where I am or what I'm doing, a keybinding quickly flips to today's daypage. From there, keybindings can go back or forward by day or by week. I just jot everything down as I think of it or experience it. (I implement this with emacs/org-mode, but i'm sure you could extend this idea to any configurable text editor)
When I need to find something (whether "united frequent flier number" to "cool restaurant in SOHO" to a link that i captured six months ago), it's only a `git grep` away. Emacs has incremental search for this. If I need to schedule something, it goes in my calendar or in that day's daypage.
When I'm in the mood to reminisce, I just flip back to last year's daypage and spend the afternoon drinking tea and reading about the lovely things that happened last year.
It's like Google for the last three years of my life. Maybe this wouldn't work for you, but my small but growing collection of daypages is now one of my most prized digital possessions.