Wunderlist works really great for me. It helps me coordinate my list of todos between my laptop and phone. It has many advantageous features like setting a reminder for a task which helps me focus on other stuff without worrying about remembering my todo list.
Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
#62Org mode: https://orgmode.org/
That might be true, but Org Mode is phenomenally powerful, and you haven't told us what you do or how you use it for this specific question.
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#634 text files that go from vague life goals down to concrete hourly tasks: - todo-year.txt : all goals for the year - todo-month.txt : track subset of annual goals to finish this month - todo-week.txt : track all monthly high-level tasks to finish this week - todo.txt : daily task plan based on weekly plan. Switch tasks every 1 hour. In a day, I plan for about 4 tasks, so each task ends up getting about 2 hours. Self-…
Hoe do you review and decide what to move between places? And, how do you handle smaller todos: get milk, register domain, clean fridge, call dentist, etc
Do those go in the list, or are they handled elsewhere?
Review and menial tasks are the two things that trip up my efforts at a system.
Also, where do you keep working notes for tasks in these lists: in the list or elsewhere?
I'm very interested, it sounds like a good system.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
#64I use a calendar called Action Day Planner that is loosely inspired by the GTD method and Leuchtturm 1917 notebooks with numbered pages and ToC.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
#65I can recommend Taskwarrior.
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#66I can recommend taskwarrior.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
#67I had basically the same problem as OP some years back. Then I wrote down, for each and every task, how much I'd value having already completed it (including how much I'd value having experienced doing it), and how long I estimated it'd take. This immediately gives value / hour. Add some categorization (e.g. to only work on work tasks during the week), and voila: Auto-prioritization. Helped a lot with getting the actually important things done and get reminded to do useful long term stuff when idle time arose.
FWIW, I'm currently rebuilding it as a web-app, if you want to try: https://quuxtodo.com/
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
#684 text files that go from vague life goals down to concrete hourly tasks: - todo-year.txt : all goals for the year - todo-month.txt : track subset of annual goals to finish this month - todo-week.txt : track all monthly high-level tasks to finish this week - todo.txt : daily task plan based on weekly plan. Switch tasks every 1 hour. In a day, I plan for about 4 tasks, so each task ends up getting about 2 hours. Self-…
What if you are traveling, and can't access your pc?
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
#694 text files that go from vague life goals down to concrete hourly tasks: - todo-year.txt : all goals for the year - todo-month.txt : track subset of annual goals to finish this month - todo-week.txt : track all monthly high-level tasks to finish this week - todo.txt : daily task plan based on weekly plan. Switch tasks every 1 hour. In a day, I plan for about 4 tasks, so each task ends up getting about 2 hours. Self-…
I don't use these tiers, but in terms of tooling simple text files is definitely the way to go.
Re: Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
#70I had this problem, the solution I've ended up is...
Wunderlist (Android Task App) for non computer related things todo, stuff like shopping, meal prep, anything that doesn't involve sitting at a computer.
https://dynalist.io - Which was a revelation for me, by far the best way of organising my thoughts & planning.
Google Calendar - Used for long term reminders, events and general scheduling.
https://tiddlywiki.com/ - Ideal for long term structured notes.
The most important thing I found was to offload everything into your head into tools that you trust and can do the job. I trust google calendar to remind me of stuff I've set it up to remind me, I trust wunderlist to remind me of the weekly stuff I need to do when I need to do it. Tiddlywiki will get me any of my old notes in seconds and dynalist let's me get thought processes out of my head into the computer better than anything else I've used.