I have a physical notebook. Everyday (almost) I write a simple todo list and check yesterday's list if there is something I should work today. When I finish task I draw a line on top of it, it feels better than moving tickets on Trello :)
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?
#92I cannot recommend 'a' setup as I'm constantly exploring as well, but in case you're interested in trying out different approach for 'getting things done' then there are several solutions posted for addressing that on my problem validation platform[1].
It's one of the reasons I keep trying different solutions as well.
[1] https://needgap.com/problems/30-getting-things-done-at-indiv...
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#93I’ve been building my own: https://akiflow.com.
Allows me to consolidates my tasks in the same place from multiple apps (notion, asana..), turn emails/slack messages into tasks, view all my calendars and drag&drop tasks to do time blocking.
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#94I read a comment somewhere in hacker news about a guy managing their daily planning on a locally saved plain text file. I started doing it and _loved_ it. But after a while I was missing some of that nice WYSIWYG UI interface. I couldn't find an existing tool which allows me to continue to use that local text file and also have a nice pretty interface. One thing led to another and I ended up scratching my own itch by…
Wow, this looks great -- I normally use a local plaintext file but this seems like a must-try. Will be using it this week, thanks for sharing!
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#95A simple A4 piece of paper: +-------------+-------------+-------------+ | Mon.| Thu.| Todo| | | | | | | | | +-------------+-------------+ | | Tue.| Fri.| | | | | | | | | | +-------------+-------------+ | | Wen.| Sat.| | | +-------------+ | | | Sun.| | +-------------+-------------+-------------+ Every week a new piece of paper, the main todo list of the week on the right, I push the items on each specific day, I put t…
I also, after having used all the systems out there, keep coming back to paper.
Specifically dotted paper is a good balance of structure and freedom.
justan A4 dot grid pad: 120 Dotted Notebook Pages (5mm dot matrix) - A4 (8.27" x 11.69") Green https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08TQ7DSLY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_gl...
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#96A simple A4 piece of paper: +-------------+-------------+-------------+ | Mon.| Thu.| Todo| | | | | | | | | +-------------+-------------+ | | Tue.| Fri.| | | | | | | | | | +-------------+-------------+ | | Wen.| Sat.| | | +-------------+ | | | Sun.| | +-------------+-------------+-------------+ Every week a new piece of paper, the main todo list of the week on the right, I push the items on each specific day, I put t…
I also, after having used all the systems out there, keep coming back to paper. Specifically dotted paper is a good balance of structure and freedom. justan A4 dot grid pad: 120 Dotted Notebook Pages (5mm dot matrix) - A4 (8.27" x 11.69") Green https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08TQ7DSLY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_gl...
I use this handy website if I need some grid paper in a pinch: http://www.gridzzly.com/
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#97I have adapted the GTD (Getting Things Done) system as a filesystem, and use Total Commander to manage things on my phone (and dropbox+dropsync to keep it synced between devices).
Total Commander has a nice feature, which is that you can assign specific icons to files of a particular extension, and then sort in (descending) order by that extension. This means that, choosing intelligent extension names allows you to sort in a way that puts vital, urgent, important, actionable items etc in a useful order, with nice icons to match (I have chosen a simple 'traffic light' icon-set of my own design).
This works great for me, and I have been using it for years. One nice thing about it is the freedom to adapt it as time goes on and my needs change.
My current structure is something like this:
01. Actionable Tasks
02. Awaited - Delegated Tasks
03. Personal standards and rituals
04. Recurring - Ongoing Tasks and general Goals.
05. Future Ideas and other misc resources.
06. Archived (years up to 2020)
07. My 'Yay me' folder. (see: https://lifehacker.com/keep-a-file-of-your-accomplishments-302754)
08. General Resources (travel checklists, previous addresses, vaccination record, password zipped bank details, etc)
01. Actionable Tasks
├── 2021-[01-09] Once a task is completed, I rename it and place a 'dot' in front to mark it as 'done', which also makes it a hidden file and clears it from view of current tasks (unless I click the 'show hidden files button' in Total Commander). This also helps you check when istorical tasks were completed (at the resolution in which they were created - for finer control you could modify the file's date etc).
All in all, it's a system that would work anyway, but in combination with Total Commander on my phone, it makes it very appealing to use. To me it feels almost like I have a fully customizable tasks app. (and as a bonus, total commander is simply the best android file manager I've ever used).
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#98I’ve been building my own: https://akiflow.com . Allows me to consolidates my tasks in the same place from multiple apps (notion, asana..), turn emails/slack messages into tasks, view all my calendars and drag&drop tasks to do time blocking.
I really like this but I need multiple people to have access to my calendar for scheduling. If you can figure how to build this for small teams I'd love that.
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#99I use obsidian.md
There's a plugin that creates a daily note every morning.
This single daily note is a combination of Todo list, journal and collection of loose thoughts.
This works great for me since I am a heavy obsidian user anyway and use it to to organize all of my more permanent notes, so the integration with that is pretty nice.
The plain text format works a lot better for me than any other opinionated way of organizing todos in an app that I have ever tried and being able to easily reference other things I'm working on is pretty nice.
Give it a shot if you already use obsidian, otherwise there's probably better standalone tools out there.
Re: Ask HN: What’s your favorite tool for planning your day?
#100I organize my work tasks and notes in org-mode by Area>Project>Task in a loose GTD system. For personal tasks, I similarly use Things 3 on my iPhone.
I plan each work day on index cards, one task per card. This helps me to limit work in progress so I’m not all over the place. Using index cards, it’s easy to reprioritize tasks, modify processes, and absorb emergent tasks.