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Todo apps are meant for robots

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Re: Todo apps are meant for robots

#61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. Not wanting to pay them motivates me to not fail.

... or to lie to the app?

Interestingly I’ve found I haven’t done that. I try to make the tasks small enough that when it’s time to do them it’s not overwhelming and the potential fine is enough just sting to make me check the app regularly

Re: Todo apps are meant for robots

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I use a Todo app every day, starting in the morning. Almost all of my tasks are recurring, well defined, and relatively short. E.g. "triage email inbox every day", "vacuum house every week on Saturday", "upper body workout every second day", "renew passport every 10 years". For me this works well, because: * I don't forget to get things done * I don't have to think about what I need to do, the app shows me a daily li…

What do you use as a daily task list app? I'm using TickTick on Android, but daily tasks is not its strong point.

Use org-mode or die.

Re: Todo apps are meant for robots

#64

I use a Todo app every day, starting in the morning. Almost all of my tasks are recurring, well defined, and relatively short. E.g. "triage email inbox every day", "vacuum house every week on Saturday", "upper body workout every second day", "renew passport every 10 years". For me this works well, because: * I don't forget to get things done * I don't have to think about what I need to do, the app shows me a daily li…

What app do you use? I've yet to find something that works really well with recurring tasks.

Todoist - https://todoist.com

Re: Todo apps are meant for robots

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post #23

I use a Todo app every day, starting in the morning. Almost all of my tasks are recurring, well defined, and relatively short. E.g. "triage email inbox every day", "vacuum house every week on Saturday", "upper body workout every second day", "renew passport every 10 years". For me this works well, because: * I don't forget to get things done * I don't have to think about what I need to do, the app shows me a daily li…

What do you use as a daily task list app? I'm using TickTick on Android, but daily tasks is not its strong point.

Todoist - https://todoist.com

Re: Todo apps are meant for robots

#67

I've found the best TODO 'app' is google calendar and a journal. I also have white board where raw idea get put down, but there id no real organization. once I decide I like the idea, task, ect I work it into my calendar and/or journal and go from there.

Same. Recurring and one-off scheduled tasks go on gcal (pay rent, go to dentist tuesday). one off things like grocery lists, notes, writing snippets go in a journal synced across devices (iA writer in a git repo).

I also use a Trello board for tracking longer term goals/personal projects.

Re: Todo apps are meant for robots

#69

I use a Todo app every day, starting in the morning. Almost all of my tasks are recurring, well defined, and relatively short. E.g. "triage email inbox every day", "vacuum house every week on Saturday", "upper body workout every second day", "renew passport every 10 years". For me this works well, because: * I don't forget to get things done * I don't have to think about what I need to do, the app shows me a daily li…

WTF is a "todo app?"

Re: Todo apps are meant for robots

#70

>3. Sense of accomplishment is important but rare in the digital world. When you mark a task as done in your TODO app, it just hides it. That’s it, no reward, no sense of accomplishment (unless you make your own). I think that’s why some people like Trello or pen-and-paper TODO list: when you get something done, you can see a card moved or a text crossed out. An artifact that proves there was a task here, and now it’…

[from TFA, quoted above] "When you mark a task as done in your TODO app, it just hides it." Those are some big assumptions and sweeping generalizations apparently made by the author; for example, my system leverages Roam Research. In Roam, a key bit of UX is to type cmd+enter to prefix any block element (Roam's atomic unit, renderered as an HTML ` ` list item) with a TODO checkbox, or to toggle its presence and state…

From point (1) in the post:

> The amount of things one can customize is really large, but making all this decisions has a cost.

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