The Best To-Do List: A Private Gist
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The Best To-Do List: A Private Gist
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#2I'm also a huge fan of todo lists. I like the simplicity of this approach. I still feel like Trello is better though. Trello is almost perfect. It's heavier for sure, but you gain a ton of flexibility and power.
My wife and I put an old iPad up on our fridge and use Trello to maintain needed groceries, chores, household repairs, and upcoming events. Even better, these lists automatically sync to our phones and PCs. I can just head to the grocery store whenever I have a free moment and my grocery list is always up to date and ready for me.
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#3This is great, simple and easy. I wish that it didn't save a revision every time you checked an item. I'm more interested in keeping revisions on how my list items change. Granted, there could be some value in knowing when I completed items, but that being said, when you check an item is not necessarily when it was completed.
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#4For me, it's still paper. Specifically, this paper:
http://www.amazon.com/Strathmore-Visual-Journal--Mixed-Media...
The spiral bound means it can be left open to the right page, and the thick paper is great. Version control (new pages) is built in. And the best part is that it's always right there in front of me, and I can glance down.
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#5For me, it's still paper. Specifically, this paper: http://www.amazon.com/Strathmore-Visual-Journal--Mixed-Media... The spiral bound means it can be left open to the right page, and the thick paper is great. Version control (new pages) is built in. And the best part is that it's always right there in front of me, and I can glance down.
Is it just an empty pad? Or is there something printed on the pages to give some structure?
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#6All the manual creation of checkboxes, deletion, and moving of tasks to me makes Gist far from "The Best" to-do list. Personally, I find the lighweight Google Tasks just fine, especially since there are many excellent mobile apps that sync with it and builtin support for multiple lists. I wish the URL for it was a bit more memorable though (https://mail.google.com/tasks/canvas?pli=1). The only thing missing is date completed, which I personally don't find very useful, but a calendar would probably be better if you want to keep track of that.
Edit: Nevermind, it does save date completed.
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#7I like that this is an option, and it's certainly a great option for some people, but calling it the "best" based on "it turns brackets into checkboxes!" is a bit of a stretch.
I do think that gists could be an ideal platform for a more robust todo list, though. It could easily serve as a backend for todotxt [1], for example.
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#8I just use a file in Dropbox. That is devastatingly effective for me - available across devices and offline.
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#9Correction:
The Best To-Do List: Org-Mode
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#10For me, it's still paper. Specifically, this paper: http://www.amazon.com/Strathmore-Visual-Journal--Mixed-Media... The spiral bound means it can be left open to the right page, and the thick paper is great. Version control (new pages) is built in. And the best part is that it's always right there in front of me, and I can glance down.
Is it just an empty pad? Or is there something printed on the pages to give some structure?
Seems to 'just' thick paper that you can write on, paint on, stick things to - like a scrapbook (http://www.strathmoreartist.com/visual-journals.html)