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from my perspective, as soon as my todo list is digitized it is hidden from me. And as soon as it is hidden I forget to maintain it.
I do: - 1. Checklist on paper - 2. Take a photo of it Sometimes: - 3. Rewrite at destination Always: - 4. Rewrite every few days
Was immediately turned off by his devotion to the ridiculously overrated Inbox Zero. Inbox Zero is a gross waste of time and essentially OCD masturbation. Using tools (like filters, or a better email client with smart prioritization such as https://sparkmailapp.com/ ) to prioritize important emails is far superior and has zero ongoing maintenance cost in time: https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/worlds-dumbest-time-ma…
I am more productive with zero inbox than other tools. And since neither of us can prove we are right, let's accept it's just an opinionated tool, and it's a matter of taste.
Actually, that's false. Use https://www.rescuetime.com/ and compare with people who don't use this system, divide by the number of incoming emails per person, and you'll know in short order.
Empirical data is a wonderful tool to find truth.
Was immediately turned off by his devotion to the ridiculously overrated Inbox Zero. Inbox Zero is a gross waste of time and essentially OCD masturbation. Using tools (like filters, or a better email client with smart prioritization such as https://sparkmailapp.com/ ) to prioritize important emails is far superior and has zero ongoing maintenance cost in time: https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/worlds-dumbest-time-ma…
Agreed on Inbox Zero. I used it for a while, until I realized that there is tremendous value in being as responsive to emails as possible. Most people don't expect replies to emails, so they tend to be delighted when you respond immediately. It's a great way to set yourself apart from your coworkers or competitors. So now I have my email inbox open in its own monitor, and I glance at it when a new email arrives. If i…
I can explain this. As your reliability to someone else dips below 100%, your effective utility to them drops far more drastically. (Imagine Google was up only 95% of the time.) I only realized this rather late in life for some reason (although I was already doing it intuitively). It seems to apply to friendships, personal relationships, and work relationships... as well as services. Basically any interaction.
Instant response = reliability. That makes you more valuable to other people.
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On number 2, that's not entirely true, you can be like "I'm not reading this now, I'll snooze it until x when I'll go through some emails" For me it's all about reducing noise level and cognitive load. It's made me a lot more organised, although occasionally I keep pushing things back and won't admit that I'm not going to do them because I feel like I should do it today but I probably ultimately won't. Curse my falli…
The "snooze hell" is extremily unproductive if you ask me. Quite often I end up creating an avalanche of reminders just by snoozing/deferring individual tasks until "later" instead of deciding when/where to actually perform the task, so I can continue focus with whatever feels more inportant at the moment... Oh, brain :-(
The todo.txt file format supports extensions, and some of the extensions include start date, due date, recurring tasks. The Simpletask todo.txt Android client supports these, and can filter by things that are past their start date, sort by due date, etc. Todo.txt also supports projects/contexts/lists/tags and Simpletask can filter by them. i don't know which todo.txt commandline clients, if any, can do this but i bet…
If I modify times then the calendar events get killed and reinserted. (Diff checks for changed todos for me)
Finally, the feedback loop gets closed by email. I can send an email with a task, and it gets pulled down to insert or modify todos.
I 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 use mu4e for email and have configured it so that pressing the "t" key when viewing an email creates a Taskwarrior task.
Task warrior is a hell of a tool - it's synced accross my devices and doesn't need proprietary software. I built a Taskwarrior app for pebble as well, so I can have the tasks that have a deadline in the timeline.
Please share the Pebble stuff!
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That's an underlying issue (PEBCAK) which can be mitigated with mindfulness. The same could happen with an abundance of p&p notes. Someone who claims it doesn't happen w/their p&p notes, why would it happen with digital ones? Because the storage is easier and accessible (cloud in on your mobile in your pocket)? But an agenda full with notes isn't hard to carry around. My mother has been doing that for ages. She write…
So what is the solution?
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That's an underlying issue (PEBCAK) which can be mitigated with mindfulness. The same could happen with an abundance of p&p notes. Someone who claims it doesn't happen w/their p&p notes, why would it happen with digital ones? Because the storage is easier and accessible (cloud in on your mobile in your pocket)? But an agenda full with notes isn't hard to carry around. My mother has been doing that for ages. She write…
So what is the solution?
1. Pocket notebook (physical) for this week’s todos and random ideas
2. sticky notes for chores and mindless lists
3 whiteboard for half baked ideas
4. google keep for digital content like images, bookmarks, phone numbers, shared lists
5. Notational velocity with notes organized in Noguchi’s chronological order.
I have a minor tweak in this where i paste sticky notes within the physical notebook so i can move them around.
I use Google Keep with pretty good success. Having one list for "To-Do Now" (daily stuff) and one for "To-Do Later" (longer term goals). The key for me is syncing across devices. If I can't add the to-do quickly when I think of it then the system wouldn't work for me.
What makes Google Keep useless to me is that there is no 'sort by most recently edited' option, same as Google Drive and really everything google makes. I have to manually bring each note to the top every time I edit it, which kills the functionality.