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Re: Dating Other Task Managers

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Post by bongobingo1 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #30
sigmonsays wrote: post #16

i have the most simple note taking solution, which also doubles as my knowledge base. I have a git repo, filled with folders. Organized organically. Sometimes I put "tags: todo" at the top.. so I can grep for it. Other than that, I'm well aware of what i need to be doing without looking. If i have a lot of tasks I can't manage mentally, put make a todo list in org or just plain text and plug away at 'em. I've wanted…

I have a fairly small (but important) set of daily practices, like a 5K walk, every morning, combined with a slightly larger set of “heuristics,” like drinking water all day, standing at a desk, working in small, discrete steps (about hour-long chunks), etc. But my “to-do manager” is a small Post-It note pad on my desk. It’s a live-action Kanban board. WFM, YMMV.

How granulated are your tasks?

Re: Dating Other Task Managers

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

bongobingo1 wrote: post #41
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a fairly small (but important) set of daily practices, like a 5K walk, every morning, combined with a slightly larger set of “heuristics,” like drinking water all day, standing at a desk, working in small, discrete steps (about hour-long chunks), etc. But my “to-do manager” is a small Post-It note pad on my desk. It’s a live-action Kanban board. WFM, YMMV.

How granulated are your tasks?

Fairly fine-grained, short-term.

The pad is for my daily programming tasks (and sometimes, other stuff).

I keep “the big picture” in my head.

It is not “watertight,” but it allows me valuable slack time, and I get a lot done.

Re: Dating Other Task Managers

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Post by least »

jen729w wrote: post #15
least wrote: post #8

I love reading Evan Travers' blog. He always puts a lot of thought into things that I also want to improve at. I know that a lot of people on Hacker News are very much against productivity hacking, but I none the less want to find ones that work and help making navigating life a little easier for me. I especially like the stuff he's done with Hammerspoon [1] and always look out for the things that can make using a Ma…

> I've never been able to stick to a routine with a set of daily tasks in the same way he apparently has Productivity nerd here, so I’m not criticising anyone. But… Could this be because you simply don’t want to? My feeling is that we’re told that to be Good Productivity Nerds there are these things we have to do. Daily rituals, journaling, reviews … honestly, reading Evan’s post made me feel nervous. Like, when does…

I do think it's possible that it's simply a matter of not enjoying it, but I also struggle with keeping up positive habits that I do enjoy as well. Figuring out how to get started and keep starting on daily habits is probably the hardest part of it more than the actual doing of it.

I don't really aspire to do everything that Evan or other GTD enthusiasts do, just small parts of it. Breaking down tasks especially and having a list as a source of truth would be really helpful, but I haven't yet figured out a good way of doing that.

Re: Dating Other Task Managers

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Post by oliwary »

codefeenix wrote: post #12

I initially thought the title referenced dating someone with a job title of "task managers".

Same here… was looking forward to a description of how a couple of task masters perfectly distribute chores among themselves and break arguments up into little sub arguments.

Re: Dating Other Task Managers

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Post by nucleogenesis »

63 wrote: post #5

I've been passively on the hunt for a task manager for a couple weeks now. It seems everything points to Todoist for me. I love the idea of org mode but it's too much for my use case and I think a mobile app would be pretty helpful for me, given how often I'm away from a computer. I don't use Apple products so Things 3 is out. Obsidian is an interesting knowledge management tool that I'm looking into separately but i…

Sure you’ll get tons of recs but I’ve found Sunsama to be a great tool for separating things into categories.

It’s helped me separate family house tasks from work tasks. I can view them, plan them, etc separately or together.

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Post by Xelynega »

63 wrote: post #5

I've been passively on the hunt for a task manager for a couple weeks now. It seems everything points to Todoist for me. I love the idea of org mode but it's too much for my use case and I think a mobile app would be pretty helpful for me, given how often I'm away from a computer. I don't use Apple products so Things 3 is out. Obsidian is an interesting knowledge management tool that I'm looking into separately but i…

Does taskwarrior meet your needs?

It has a mobile app, cli interface, and web UI.

Tasks are organized by hierarchal "project"(like "home", "home.wardrobe") and have 20 standard attributes that can be given(time estimate, due date, dependencies, priority, urgency). When looking at the list of tasks the default ordering is priority, and you can filter by project or other attributes. It also supports recurring tasks for things you want to track over time(i.e. your daily journaling and monthly report examples).

Re: Dating Other Task Managers

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Post by ctvo »

The fidgeting over todo list managers, optimizing for what? A theoretical 5% improvement in productivity from worst to best? It’s so undifferentiated.

I’ve always thought people who do things do it. People who won’t will look for every reason to do everything else, be it swapping bullet journal format every month, experimenting with new note taking strategies, configuring every dot file, and every text editor plugin.

Re: Dating Other Task Managers

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Post by Xelynega »

With taskwarrior, could you not implement your 'rituals' as recurring tasks, then just activate/deactive them as the "seasons of life" change. No mention of the web UIs or mobile apps built for taskwarrior either, kinda seems like he skimmed the GitHub readme and didn't explore further.

Re: Dating Other Task Managers

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Post by Closi »

mywacaday wrote: post #27

I've always wanted to try Things and omnifocus but am Windows based. Are there and windows functional equivalents?

I really wish one of these supported Windows!

I use Apple at home and Windows at work and my one requirement is for a solution that works between it all - I’ve purchased both Things and OmniFocus and they are both great but killed by a lack of windows support for me.

NirvanaHq is the closest I have found - It’s the best thing I’ve found that’s opinionated about GTD and truly multi-platform. Having said this, the second either Things or OmniFocus release a Windows app I’ll immediately jump to that.

Re: Dating Other Task Managers

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Post by sergiomattei »

tta wrote: post #26

I'm working on an app that focuses on the "rituals" you mentioned, so I've been thinking a lot along these lines too. Things and other similar apps are great for one-off tasks that possibly need to be done in the future ... the power to say "I want to do this in 3 weeks" but not have to think about it until then is hard to beat, and hard to properly articulate until you've experienced it. At the same time they aren't…

This looks awesome. Great work!
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