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Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
#22I've got a few different complimentary systems for different things: - For working out, I rely on habit. I forced myself to go to the gym at a certain time for long enough that I just feel like doing it now, so I go automatically. - For personal projects, I work off a queue based system. While I'm working on a task, I try to minimize task-switching, but if I come up with a new idea, or something else I want or need t…
How do you keep track of your queue?
Also is it FIFO, LIFO or a priority model?
My queue seems to bloat, then I tried to mitigated that by telling myself if something is in the queue for X amount of time remove it.
Nowadays that removal just becomes a JIRA story but it's rather inefficient for me.
Re: Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
#23Married with children. Google Calendar and Todoist.
Google cal + google docs, searchable!
Plus: small 8x11 white board sitting around the kitchen for reminder items for each other. Simple efficient reminder so you're not always cracking open the computer.
Also, let some things slide till tomorrow. If you do EVERYTHING that needs to be done, you'll just be busy all the time.
Re: Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
#24I use https://crushentropy.com/ It's like markdown for planning the day, with easy revisions.
I love it when [Hackernews, Reddit] was planned for 30 mins
in demo but eventually it took one hour!!!
Re: Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
#25I use Todoist to plan my life (and work), and try to stick to it.
If you are interested to know what is Todoist and how does it work, I have written a blog post on it. Have a read.
Re: Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
#26I use https://crushentropy.com/ It's like markdown for planning the day, with easy revisions.
This is really cool, going to try it out tomorrow, although it could really do with a view optimised for mobile.
Re: Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
#27I don't. I put things on my to-do list if they are important (it has never been more 20 or so items, some stay on there a long time too) and I put scheduled events on a shared Google calendar with my wife.
Aside from that I have rough goals during the week that I try to achieve such as working out 3 times, cook so and so dish, go grocery shopping, play X game, etc.
I'm pretty happy with the results.
Re: Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
#28Just write stuff on the calendar if something needs to be scheduled.
Re: Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
#29I use the GCal CLI and document my life every 30 minutes. I use it both retroactively and to plan the future. It helps me analyse my weeks, months and years and figure out where I wasted most of my time and try to optimize it.
Re: Ask HN: How do you schedule your life?
#30I got married (answers both questions, I'm afraid). I often wonder if that is a really bad way of doing things since I tend to simply do what my wife wants. If I want "me time", I need to tell her in advance so she can put it in my schedule. However, I've always been super easy going in that respect. My wife loves organising things and trying to optimise stuff so that everything fits. She even optimises the meal prep…
It is a shame that I cannot upvote the parent comment 15 times.
Jokes apart, I find parent's awareness perplexing. Wife organising nearly everything in a married couple is way more common then anyone realises where I live, yet most men like to think that they are in charge when they (we?) tend to hide away from 90% of decision making.