A paper calendar. Specifically a Moleskine weekly calendar.
Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
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Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#42A (physical) sticky note or two and a gel pen.
I'll mark down meetings with times on one, and a todo list on another. Stuff gets crossed off as I go. Anything not done gets recopied to a new todo sticky. If I can't fit my todo list onto a single normal-sized sticky with smallish handwriting, I'm trying to do too much.
(Aside: I find writing these out by hand to be a nice break for reflection and crossing them off to be much more satisfying than clicking a checkbox or other electronic equivalents.)
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#43My brain.
I consider what I care most about and do that.
Everyone should be able to do what's most effective for them so keep using those tools if they are working well sure you. Personally, I have been frustrated by a world that forces me to accept friction and do the extra work of bookkeeping.
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#44My own thing.
https://github.com/andrey-utkin/taskdb/wiki/Live-demo
I can manage items in calendaring apps and in SQL editor, and visualize various diagrams.
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#45I'm biased but I'm building my own here: https://getartemis.app
It combines a todo list and calendar. Currently though I'm working on a mobile version which you can see on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/satvikpendem/status/1446697663479562242?...
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#46A Leuchtturm notebook and the Bullet Journal method!
Beat me to it, though for me it's a Black n' Red notebook and fountain pens.
The ultimate open standards - pen and paper.
I find writing it down helps me remember the tasks or things needed, and a fountain pen is just a joy to use plus you get to take mini breaks from the digital world.
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#47I've been building my own thing for a while. It blends the hierarchical navigation of Workflowy (to figure out your priorities) with task management and routine building. Throughout this process, I discovered a whole lot about ADHD. It turns out that's why I've chased this with such reckless abandon. Between the internal pressure and balancing the side effects of medication, I burnt out. I'm _slowly_ climbing my way…
I've discovered something similar, I also noticed ADHD type behaviors which led me to build my own thing as well: https://getartemis.app. I'd love to test out yours as well though, maybe we can give mutual feedback?
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#48I'm biased but I'm building my own here: https://getartemis.app It combines a todo list and calendar. Currently though I'm working on a mobile version which you can see on my Twitter: https://twitter.com/satvikpendem/status/1446697663479562242?...
This is something I might be looking for. Will check it out
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#49After reading the other comments I feel very low-tech but I'm using Apple's Calendar and Reminders apps, synced though iCloud. I get notifications on my devices including my watch, I can manage entries via Siri when I'm driving, and it can detect appointments from my text messages and emails. I don't think I'd want to give any of that up. (I also make intensive use of Apple Notes, which I really love.)
This is exactly mysetup !
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#50As someone with ADD (+burnout and friends), this is the system I came up with for myself. It is moreso aimed at task management than day planning, but they are related:
I use colored post-it notes stuck to a whiteboard. One note per task, a rough time estimate to complete it, and the color of the note denotes the urgency (e.g. red = do today). I mark it with a ! if it is overdue/festering, and a ◆ if it is a difficult task (intellectually, emotionally, energetically, or otherwise).
The whiteboard has 6 rows: health, work, life/home, finance, education, projects. As I finish tasks, I put a big checkmark on them and leave them up for a bit (as proof to myself that I did something). When enough slain tasks accumulate, I crumple them up and Kobe them into the recycling bin.
There is not much of a planning phase—it’s just a continuous process of whack-a-mole-ing my tasks and generating new ones.