I do this as well, except I tend to stick to markdown for formatting. This file is routinely committed to git.
My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
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Re: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
#32> So my daily routine looks like
> [...]
> 5. copy the next day's calendar items to the bottom of the text file
Interesting. For a file with 51,690 lines at the time this post was created, I'm curious why the file is not ordered with the most recent day at the top of the file.
Re: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
#33> Every night before I go to bed, I take all the items on my calendar for the next day and append it to the end of the text file as a daily todo list, so I know exactly what I'm doing when I wake up. T This is a key win. Most of the rest he describes is support (also cruicial). But setting up your day the night before is amazingly powerful. Many of the things I plan for the day I actually schedule into my calendar (1…
This is the challenge of the modern manager, especially in remote jobs. You turn on the computer with a plan, and then 345 Slack messages and 10 Zoom meetings later, you consider working on it. As an EM, I really miss that state of flow and productivity. I’m whinging because I see other managers that have nailed this so much better than me and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.
Can you get started on the things you need to do before attending to those Slack messages?
Re: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
#34I'm also using Obsidian daily notes, with all un-actioned items shown on a page with a dataview API[^1]:
```dataview
TASK FROM "VaultName/Journal" WHERE !completed
```
[^1]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
[^2]: https://github.com/alister/alister-tools/blob/main/.todo.cro...
Re: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
#35I use notepad++ with 2 columns of files and around 40 tabs open.
Re: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
#36Everything old is new again:
John Carmack's .plan¹:
https://garbagecollected.org/2017/10/24/the-carmack-plan/
Archive:
Re: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
#37I also use a simple text file, but for sake of context switching - I have one file for one topic - account x has a file, account y has a file, topic z has a file and everything related to it goes in. This is all now curated in my Obsidian vault that is synced via the fantastic Git plugin.
Re: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
#38I've had pretty decent luck with `todo.txt` style tracking, but also tend to run into issues with tasks or notes "going stale" so came up with this system. `today` basically opens `~/Desktop/$YYYY_MM_DD-todo.txt`, but it'll start you off with a copy of the most recent (previous) file. This lets me have "durable" files (I can grep for pretty much anything and get a date-specific hit for it, similar to doing a `git log…
This is brilliant - thanks for the great idea
Re: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
#39Now do an article on how to get the discipline to keep this going.
As an undisciplined person who nevertheless does something similar, elimination of the fear of forgetting something is enough motivation.
Re: My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
#40Takeaway: if you're already highly organized and disciplined a simple tool is all you need
I don’t see any tool working if you’re not disciplined. Organization is just a facet of that.