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Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by CTDOCodebases »

I use my calendar to block off my time for different activities and I use a separate reminders list for each day of the week for the things I need to do. All this is done on my iPhone.

This way is good because if I don’t manage to get to do something on the list I can just move it to the next appropriate day. At a glance I can see if there was anything I missed doing the day before.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by Brajeshwar »

Anything for me to do/process goes through a quick Eisenhower Matrix[1] in my mind and I drop them in the bucket I want it to. My primary focus (top-right) usually goes to a date on the calendar. The others lands in a plain text, with an Orgmode-ish[2] organization/pattern (no, not in Emacs).

This is the simplest and most effective so far that I have broken down to.

1. https://cdn.oinam.com/img/work/effort-value-matrix.jpg

2. https://orgmode.org

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by btrettel »

azalemeth wrote: post #2

I use the cli tool taskwarrior -- https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/taskwarrior or https://taskwarrior.org/ -- which does have a remote sync option. If you're a "I live in the terminal" kinda person, you might get on well with it.

I'm seconding this. Taskwarrior is the program I've used for the longest, by far.

I particularly like Taskwarrior's ability to set task dependencies. And I've found tasklib [0] to be nice for writing Python scripts to interact with the database.

[0] https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/tasklib

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by jFriedensreich »

i gave up on “managing” it. i have a giant text file with maximum of one level indentation for subtasks in vscode. i just append anything as one task per line that i have to do or remember and then go about my day. i only ever get back to it if i really think i forgot something. occasionally i will delete a few lines that are not needed anymore or done when i notice while adding something new. the main purpose is to get ease of mind and reduce anxiety as i always know i have noted it down and could structure it more if i needed to. occasionally i will check in a version to git as backup and to spot accidental file changes or in case i ever want to look at some history of what i removed.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by zevon »

I use https://noteplan.co - it integrates calendars, reminders and markdown notes.

Calendars and reminders use their respective MacOS system apps (those can be used with Exchange, CalDAV and CardDAV servers which is important to me). The note-taking part of the app has a lot of niceties (task management, subfolders, tags, wiki-style-links, attachments, ...) and is split into a general-purpose "notes" folder and a "daily notes" folder. If you open a daily note, you get a combined view of a markdown note for the day in the center, your calendars and reminders on the right and all your general-purpose-notes in a sidebar to the left. I find this combination so useful that Noteplan is the only app I (very grudgingly) a) pay a subscription fee for and b) sync via a commercial cloud service - in this case Apple's CloudKit.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by hammyhavoc »

smeej wrote: post #10

I'm a huge fan of https://momentum.earth . It's the best GTD system I've seen online, and the infinite sub-tasking/grouping, where each grouping can be set to be done either sequentially or in parallel, either surfacing the next task or all the tasks in the "Next" list automatically is amazing. Throw in the review settings, and the big picture areas of responsibility? And end-to-end encryption? It's amazing.

Can you do 'blocking' tasks? E.g. Can't paint a wall until the task to move a container is done, but can't do that until the container is empty, so the sequence is derived from blocking tasks.

Is it collaborative?

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