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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.
But anyway, I think really you just gotta do things and adapt, all there is to do is to find something worthwhile to do for the next couple of hours and then to keep doing that, anyway. I think a lot of planning, task lists and tools are really just there to pacify you and help you feel less stressed about the nature of life and everything you have going on anyway, to give you some kinda fake sense of control
Oh, the hours we could all save if we didn't spend so many hours reading about, trying, designing, and writing better todo apps. I'm sure somebody has an idea for a better kind of todo app that would help with this.
So I too have tried every Things replacement under the sun, including in the beginning of my metamorphosis into paranoaic, those that host data on their servers like Todoist. Except I haven't tried orgmode, I don't use emacs. Travers arrives here on what is still a hard requirement for me:
> I have always required that my task manager be equally accessible on my phone and computer… I have changed my mind. I don't need the full-featured Brain on my phone
He claims it's a feature, "disconnect to create". I'm not sure I buy it, sounds more to me like a post-hoc justification for giving up on a requirement of the search. If so I find no fault here. There is literally no replacement for Things, it simply doesn't exist. Things is one of the best pieces of software in the history of software. I miss it everyday.
I still use an Apple laptop, so I ended up just using Reminders which is God awful. For quick entry I found an app called "Menu for Reminders" that is good enough. On Android I use Tasks.org, and I sync everything with an iCal server that I run. It's not nearly as good as Things was.
Amidst Apple's CSAM debacle I switched from iPhone to LineageOS and started learning more and more about how non-existent privacy is these days. I always thought I was protected - I used all Apple products after all. I had been completely hoodwinked by Apple's privacy marketing messaging, somehow deluded into believing the world's largest company and PRISM partner had my back. The pendulum swung the other way, perhap…
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.
It’s not about a numerical gain, it’s more like making sure your shoes fit; if they don’t you are going to be uncomfortable for a long time.
Amidst Apple's CSAM debacle I switched from iPhone to LineageOS and started learning more and more about how non-existent privacy is these days. I always thought I was protected - I used all Apple products after all. I had been completely hoodwinked by Apple's privacy marketing messaging, somehow deluded into believing the world's largest company and PRISM partner had my back. The pendulum swung the other way, perhap…
Not only did you digress (literally, right out of the gate) but you also failed to give any explanation for why and how you were hoodwinked by Apple. It just reads like a totally off-topic rant.
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.
I can say that sometimes "things just work" and that's what I'm always searching for. The thing that makes me not feel like "I wish this worked just a little differently".
I used to fiddle with fonts all the time, until I found Monolisa. I haven't fiddled with fonts in a long time.
I've found that for task organizing I have to have 2 levels. My todo lists for various "modes" (work, personal, kids/house), then another completely separate list of things I make at the start of each day. Still don't know of a tool that does that and I've just stopped looking.
Admittedly, I still fiddle with themes, plugins, etc. for code editing. :x Always after that 1 theme that will help me see everything on the screen at a glance without angry text (red text mixed in otherwise subdued tones) and covers all the different file types I use, appropriately. Just typing this out is making me wonder if there's a way to apply a different syntax theme to different file types. Hmm, about to waste another 20 minutes to an hour looking into that, I'm sure.
TL;DR I think the other person that answered this yesterday said it better than me "it's not about numerical gain, it's more about making sure your shoes fit".
We're trying to solve some of these problems with FocusTask ( https://focustask.app )
