Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?

Post by jwong_ » Thu, Jan 17, 2019, 4:07 AM UTC

lovelearning wrote: post #278

jwong_ wrote: post #277

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Sorry if asking too much about the details, but I'm interested in how you track a task being delayed multiple times for consecutive days. Do you just know it from daily analysis, or are you creating a new file for each day/week/month, and periodically look through those? And how about weeks, new file for each week? or just clear it out every new week, and bring stuff back up to the year file?

I have exactly 4 files - no new files. At the end of the D/W/M/Y, I just add a new section on top and plan the period there. So each file has a record of all previous period plans. These are all cumulative files - I never clear out previous period's plans, just add a new section on top. To see a task that's delayed multiple times, I just have to scroll down and look for [PARTIAL]/[SKIPPED] markers and their analyses.…

Post by dirtmerchant » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 2:28 PM UTC

nextos wrote: post #263

klenwell wrote: post #143

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I do something very similar but I use a Trello board with columns like these. Specifically: - Daily - Weekly - Monthly - [YEAR] Completed I like Trello because the cards support checklists, due dates, and comments which are great features for promoting habits associated with getting stuff done. Some cards are recurring (getting moved from monthly or weekly to daily column), others are finishable. I take a small but r…

For any workflow, it is worth considering org-mode. It has certainly satisfied me after trying many different alternatives. It is plain text, so you are not locked into a proprietary object format. Thus, you can edit it using any text editor in case Emacs is not around. In fact, Vim is on its way towards implementing a decent subset of org-mode. GitHub and GitLab also support org-mode syntax and can even render HTML…

Post by irb__ » Fri, Jan 18, 2019, 5:02 PM UTC

  - critical tasks that have high yield on goal productivity

  - usually work stuff and active projects

  - tasks that need to get done but are not time urgent

  - inactive projects, and other future tasks or projects

  - a backlog of soon to be "urgent important" items

  - peasant tasks

  - daily tasks to survive (food, bills, etc.)

  - personal life stuff

  - tasks and projects that do not carry a high yield on goal productivity

  - home DIY projects, etc.

Post by gomangogo » Sat, Jan 19, 2019, 11:21 PM UTC

mezod wrote: post #96

gomangogo wrote: post #37

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The best way to sustain everyday.app is by making it open source and use cloudstorage (with encryption) to sync it. You don't need to make people paying $12. Great app.

Do you have any experience monetizing open source projects? Like, server costs are definitely the most negligible of all costs of running a project!

Post by wazz » Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

taurath wrote: post #95

TarpitCarnivore wrote: post #35

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My one caution with this: It's pretty easy to OVER categorize your life and never get anything done either. I had a former co-worker who read GTD and began to impliment it for everything. It felt like he was perpetually planning and never actually doing. Additionally it became rather humorous to see how the most minute things became 'projects'. Sometimes it's worth just stepping back and observing what you're conside…

To defend GTD slightly, one of the core tenants is if it will take less than 15 minutes or so, do it now (maybe it’s 5 - I stretch it to however long it takes me to do dishes or mop the floor).