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I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
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Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#132Same, but my text files are .md and synched for free between mobile/workstantion using Joplin + OneDrive.
Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#133Then, finally you reach the last layer: a 4" x 6" notepad and pen that are always kept at your desk
Hipster PDAs (a stack of index cards with a binder clip) were all the rage before people even had smartphones. I used something like it for a decade.
My extravagance was a corner punch.
Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#134This is what I do with my "Daily Brain Dump". I use Apple Notes bc it syncs up nicely with my phone. Every day I add a new entry to the top of the note. Mix of TODO's and a journal. Actually have two files, one for my life in general and one for work.
Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple's Reminders app does all of those things and many more without having to learn emacs
Ironically the Reminders app sucks at reminding. I use the Clock app for my todo list; it makes a pretty loud noise pretty reliably, which makes it pretty good for reminders.
Being pedantic, based on your example, I think the Reminders app does a good job at reminding, but a bad job at alerting. But that’s because a reminder to me is a gentle concept.
Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#136A txt (rtf in my case) is a notebook that doesn't get messy. Deepest parts go back to 2007. Cell phone alarm for reminders, also acts as a clotting agent for time. After you do what the alarm is for you have choice of setting alarm again or proceeding into the next item.
Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#137ToDo apps are a perfect example of coming up with solutions for a non-existent problem. Most of the tech solutions fall into this category.
When the consumer gets to take a hard look at their needs and gives a thrashing for sales pitch and doesn't give a damn to peer pressure, and demands for a bare-bones functional solutions only for their real and immediate needs, 90% of these solutions vanish into thin air.
Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#138Then, finally you reach the last layer: a 4" x 6" notepad and pen that are always kept at your desk
I prefer A4, but yeah. I adopted something roughly based on Bullet Journal about 6 or 7 years ago and now on my 4th book.
There's something about manually writing and copying over TODOs to the next month that makes you really question if you still need to do it, and if you do, gives you a reminder that you still haven't done it.
I use a few basic markers copied from standard bullet journal, which work well as a dot can be promoted to all the others. A dash "-" for informational stuff, a centre dot "·" for a task, which turns into a slash "/" for partially done or a cross "X" for done, ">" if I carry it forward to the next month and "Surprisingly, even when doing a whole page of notes on something, it's not excessive to leave an inch margin, and sometimes you want to star a key point or attach an action point market.
I've got really used to this way of journaling, and appreciate the ability to do different things, like calendar views - such as 36 week views with one page for weekends and the other for mid week - which are great for planning holidays, weekends and significant events.
I never really got into the monthly reflection aspect, but I do like doing that around end of year and other inflection points through the year.
Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#139You should try org-mode
Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#140To be honest, I have never understood the TODO "industry." Do people really have so many things to do, and is it really that difficult to keep track of them all? I do not know if it's just me but I feel completely alienated by these apps and articles.