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I use the tasks that come with my email account/calendar. It integrates well with thunderbird and android-apps. I am surpised, that no one here seems to use it, since it seems like an obvious choice.
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That… sounds kind of fucked up. You’re saying you have an unpaid secretary? Surely there’s a better way you could present this?
I see no need to sugar coat it when it's my reality and there's no labor disputes. If you want to be outraged by what works in my relationship have at it, meanwhile we'll continue our 20 years and counting... but if it makes you feel better, I fully realize it's self-deprecating and I'm basically a Homer Simpson of an oaf. I'd invite you to consider that some women/wives actually enjoy traditional home-making and mor…
> At work, I use my calendar. At home, I have a wife.
Then you're talking about your partner as if they were an appliance of piece of software rather than a person. You're objectifying them, even if in jest. This is the sort of language that makes many people feel unwelcome on HN.
To be clear, I don't believe you meant for your remark to be malicious! I just wanted to point out why it might make some people feel like outsiders in this community.
https://workflowy.com is the closest to a text file I've used and that's why I like it. It's like a text file that is synchronized between all your devices and lets you collapse nested bullet lists. That's enough for me.
It's the best out there for sure.
I've gone through this too and came to the same conclusion except for phone. While on laptop/desktop nothing beats txt (or md or org), it's just so uncomfortable using a text file like that on the phone and relying on dropbox or something. And I get it, all the note taking apps on the phone have issues: not local first, proprietary, subscriptions, or no encryption, or a thousand features before making sure the full t…
Which is why for jotting done some quick note, or some oh remember to do this later when i am back home is just best done on a phone.
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> Kept forgetting to check Things? How does a plain text file solve that? This. It just doesn’t. My bet is that some people just need to change their tools from time to time. And tbh I think it’s totally fine, no need to explain yourself. Just buy another todo list app and don’t feel bad about it. Or this expensive paper notebook. Or this “dumb phone” that will make you productive. Maybe just don’t try to find a deep…
Probably. Whatever method I use, physical or digital, it tends to fade into the background after a while and I stop noticing it. My best bet might be to switch to a new method every few weeks, in which case it's probably best to keep them simple and cheap. Maybe a whiteboard for a while, then a notebook, then a text file, and so on looping through a few basic methods.
While I am slowly moving in the same direction, I have one big blocker:. here do I put it? On my cellphone is really annoying to type and I put it off. Text to speech is barely working unless I speak English. On my real computer it is only available at home. Moments like this, I miss my palm pilot.
While I am slowly moving in the same direction, I have one big blocker:. here do I put it? On my cellphone is really annoying to type and I put it off. Text to speech is barely working unless I speak English. On my real computer it is only available at home. Moments like this, I miss my palm pilot.
The problem was always about finding a process that fit with my needs, a process that worked for me, and then having the discipline to stick with it.
I finally settled on bullet journaling. I like books, I like writing, I like journaling, the simplicity and adaptability worked for me. There was value for me in being able to tailor the system to my needs, rather than me trying to fight with UIs that forced me to change, or didn't quite do what I wanted.
If you are resisting or fighting your system, it will fail, regardless of the tools involved. Go with what works for you.
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Too many programmers think they have a unique use case without considering that maybe the existing projects are bloated for a reason. Then they end up just recreating the same bloat.
Gall's Law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.
Here, Gall's Law provides an accurate explanation for why so many of us have returned to paper, pencil, and brain cells. It is also apropos of your comment's sibling comment regarding how tech folks frequently and mistakenly believe that they can improve on a solution that has worked well for thousands of years of human civilization (e.g., paper + writing instrument + human thought) in just a few weeks. For all the talk of Emacs's being relatively ancient and mature software, handwriting is orders of magnitude more mature and sanded down.
With software to "solve" the problems of thinking, remembering, linking ideas, or deciding what to do … now you have two problems, as we say.