Tasks app from F-droid for to-dos, and Nextcloud Notes for the notes
Just use fucking paper, man
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Re: Just use fucking paper, man
#72Things I tried:
-Actual physical whiteboard
-Notepads (moleskine, amazon branded notepad, all colors, fancy stuff that is $20+)
-Obsidian with a bunch of plugins including Exalidraw (I wish flowcharting could be easier but still sucks compared to yED)
-Google Keep (I use it on my iPhone and sync with my computer when needed. I only use it before homedepot or some hardware store shopping. I don't use lists for grocery)
-One Note
-Wacom Intuos Pro with other 3rd party drawing / note taking apps
-My own website (Wordpress with notetaking plugin to have it on the "cloud")
-Perfex CRM
-Asana (still use it for client projects with limited access to them)
-My own Kanban mutation
-Microsoft Notepad in a dedicated folder for notes (was probably the longest-running among all other methods)
-yED Graph (still use it for client presentations with basic flowcharts)
-Google Calendar with excessive notes
-365 Word With fancy plugins
-Notepad++ since it doesn't delete if I don't save the document (MS Notepad brought it with win11 though)
Nothing worked out but I am forcing myself to use Obsidian in a Dedicated monitor and never move it. I think I am getting close to liking it. I don't know what's wrong. These apps are SO CLUTTERED. And real paper is not searchable. I have a shelf dedicated to 1/5 used notepads.
Additionally, I thought I didn't like writing with a pen. Then I dedicated a very good chunk of my life to finding the perfect pen. So far G2 and Jetstream are my favorites. I used zebra in the early 2010s because I thought "If police are using it, it must be good". It wasn't that good. I needed flow.
Re: Just use fucking paper, man
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
wax tablet? (much better write endurance than paper)
I haven't tried it but clay seems pretty cool.
The story I last heard about the origin of writing goes something like this:
- people use clay tokens to keep track of their herds/inventory
- these tokens get put into clay balls for security/transaction grouping
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulla_(seal)#Origins
- to avoid breaking and remaking the clay balls all the time, people record on the outside of the ball symbols indicating which tokens are on the inside of the ball
- at some point, some bright person realises that all you need to do is make the second set of symbols on a tablet; as long as you have them recorded, all the balls and tokens are just legacy
Re: Just use fucking paper, man
#74Ctrl+F doesn't work in a notebook, and I can't paste in screenshots.
>and I can't paste in screenshots.
Well, you literally could
Re: Just use fucking paper, man
#75Next we'll see people wanting filing cabinets.
Re: Just use fucking paper, man
#76The problem that I have with paper is refactoring. Creating my todo list, investor update lists, company admin info, idea explorations, and everything else always involves me evolving the idea continuously and shifting things about as the structure changes. With paper this means using an eraser until I end up with a crumpled mess, or laboriously rewriting it all over and over. I like the tactile nature of paper, if o…
> I like the tactile nature of paper, if only I could select chunks by dragging and erase (fully) without wrecking it.
I'm not seriously suggesting that you do this, but the term "cut & paste" originated from a concept that predates digital text editing ;)
Re: Just use fucking paper, man
#77yeah sure let me write important Jira links into a notebook by hand, that'll be better than keeping them in a plain text file
Re: Just use fucking paper, man
#78There's only one method of doing to-dos that has worked for me. This method can be used with paper, Obsidian, Apple Notes, or any other app. Every week I create a weekly note, and write my to-dos for the week. I may add more items to it during the week. If any items didn’t get done I roll them over to the next weekly note or drop them. That’s it. I usually write my to-dos from scratch without looking at the previous…
There is only one method that works, and it is whichever one you have somehow managed to actually do on a routine basis.
Re: Just use fucking paper, man
#79My problem with paper is that I can't keep up with paper. I will lose it several times a day, and inevitably, I will lose it permanently after a year or two. I need the sync and findability that an app on a device affords.
Tape an AirTag to your paper notebook.
Re: Just use fucking paper, man
#80As @kabdib says, "You can't grep paper."
You can't delete stuff from the middle of it; You can't write stuff at any random place at any random time and have it appear in your workplace; cutting and pasting involves actual scissors and glue...
Paper is a lot of extra work for the only gain to pretend you are doing something simple.