Since nobody has mentioned it, ToodleDo is a good tool with a slightly dated UI and a terrible name. It has mobile apps, 2FA, projects / subtasks / scheduling / optional alarms, and a variety of other related features. There's a free restricted version, also a paid version, which is reassuring.
Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
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Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
#72I tried this as well. I'm yearning for a tool that lets me drag & drop an email, and it automatically creates a task based on the content. I can obviously go and edit it after setting deadline or assign to project etc. I was hoping to create this workflow with MS Outlook(on Mac) and its inbuilt Tasks, but apparently they don't support it :-( I would pay for such a feature.
I recently came across https://www.moo.do . Might be what you're after.
Wow, this is revelation, thank you, very cool tool with a lot of integrations. Need to give it a whirl, but looks very promising.
Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
#73While technically awesome I've tried using it several times but always end up dropping it. I find it difficult to maintain and over time it's left to rot until I finally give up on it.
For me I don't actually need the complexity. A simple text based todo list would basically do the same job. The main issue is actually maintaining it.
This is why I like habitica more: https://habitica.com/
It's basically a gamified todo list which is perfect for me.
It's also awesome with helping establish new habits. The incentive of not wanting to break a streak is surprisingly strong. Nothing else has been remotely as successful.
Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you mean the "todo.txt" CLI ( https://github.com/todotxt/todo.txt-cli ), or just a file you edit manually? I've used the todo.txt CLI on and off, sometimes in collaboration with my (shameless plug) "friends" CLI ( https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends ) for "tasks" that are social in nature. But I always seem to come back to paper todo lists.
I actually wrote my own in Haskell, but really I just mean the structure. I no longer need huge ordered lists of blocking dependencies. I loved that taskwarrior did that, but once your life becomes less complicated, all the cool features seemed to get in my way. I wanted burndown charts. I wanted an app to figure out what tasks were highest priority based on how much time they could take and deadlines. But once you n…
Thanks for all the info! Glad to hear I'm not the only pencil-user on HN :)
Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
#75Not sure if this helps, but I made a little iOS app a while ago to help with my workflow. Check it out: HiFutureSelf (http://hifutureself.com)
HiFutureSelf is a super fast way to send messages to the future as reminders. You can set a time or location to trigger the message. It's completely free and maintained for fun :)
Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Genuinely curious: how do you manage commitments etc. without a todo list?
Easy, I just make a list of things to do. I also use a calendar. Seriously though, I'm just annoyed by some aspects of them: 1. I feel spread too thin: item 1 doesn't get the attention it deserves because I was thinking of doing item 2. The GTD book itself seems to say, "I'm a victim of this problem." 2. The longer an item stays on a list the less likely I am to do it. 3. I'm annoyed by having a long list of things t…
Re 2: When I have something that's been stuck in my todo for a long time, I drop it or I push it through in a weekend or similar short period of time. Why? I drop it because it either wasn't important or I missed the deadline. If I keep it it's still important and I up its priority.
Re 3: This motivates me to reduce and focus. I stopped agreeing to obligations from other people if I didn't actually want to do it, need to do it, or if other things had higher priority. I started setting aside daily time for a specific task (before I socialize with friends during the week, I usually show up early with a book I want to read).
Re 5: I still get these, even working from a list. In fact, thanks to 2 and 3 I feel like it happens more often. Because when I sit down to do something, I can be confident I'm not forgetting something else that needs to be done first.
Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
#77http://mgsd.tiddlyspot.com/demo3.html TiddlyWiki powered GTD system
Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
#78Not sure if this helps, but I made a little iOS app a while ago to help with my workflow. Check it out: HiFutureSelf ( http://hifutureself.com ) HiFutureSelf is a super fast way to send messages to the future as reminders. You can set a time or location to trigger the message. It's completely free and maintained for fun :)
I use calendar events. Then I can also allocate time to do the task.
Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
#79Taskwarrior is very nice, but I found org-mode combined with the mobile client orgzly even nicer. Export to ical, sync to server and you have it in your watch or mobile calendar as well.
Do you struggle with orgzly's sync management though? Things seem to get out of sync a lot with syncthing, so I've stopped editing lists on my phone (which... is starting to defeat the current iteration of the setup). Or do you use dropbox?
With WebDAV on MobileOrg, I never really had these problems.
Re: Taskwarrior, where have you been all my life?
#80While technically awesome I've tried using it several times but always end up dropping it. I find it difficult to maintain and over time it's left to rot until I finally give up on it. For me I don't actually need the complexity. A simple text based todo list would basically do the same job. The main issue is actually maintaining it. This is why I like habitica more: https://habitica.com/ It's basically a gamified to…
I tried it yesterday while looking for an app that would track "on a scale of 1-5 how well did I do X today". I settled on KeepTrack, but it doesn't have habitica's style.
Maybe habitica encourages taking the habit seriously without taking myself too seriously.