I've been using a pocket notebook for a while now: https://fieldnotesbrand.com
Just use fucking paper, man
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Writing notes only on paper in a properly secured notebook is about to make a big comeback as more and more people realize that it's fast becoming the only way to prevent AI/ML from indexing and leaking their original IP to the corporate world. Sending an email or making a social media or discord post is fast becoming the best way to snitch out your ideas to random unknown parties and IP thieves.
I have heard it is also how NSA secure their personal passwords, they keep them in a little black book because there is no scalable attack to get access to them at rest.
It’s legal to have one login to a top classified computer and save your lower classification passwords there.
A few coworkers identified which systems allowed us to re-use passwords, fixed passwords, non expiring reset passwords, etc. warning signs with the password on the back too.
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#153Google Keep is best for to do lists. It’s as simple as you want and supports checkboxes, photos, recordings and drawings.
And of course, it’s cloud based and not restricted to only Google platforms. Something Apple will never swallow their pride for no matter how simple the product.
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#155I mean I use remember the milk for remembering things, something computers are great at. Then I just make little slots in my calendar where I do one todo item. If something is unclear, I make a todo item to generate something actionable. All my meetings sync automatically with an app which creates alarms for everything. So far this system has worked great. I still use paper if I want to batch stuff and finish related items quickly.
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#156There's a different Andy Bell who fixes everything by adding more guitar pedals.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is unrealistic. If I didn't accept TODO items older than a year, or even five years, I never would have built my fence, fixed my stairs, set up my home lab, learned iOS development, digitized my family's old photos/videos, or innumerable other things, because for each of those things, I had 10 to 100 more mundane but more time-sensitive/higher-priority things to do. You can manage long-term lists without losing…
I feel that you're being unrealistic, not the parent poster: Turning every aspect of your life into a jira ticket straight up isn't healthy (I'm using "jira" here as a stand-in for "any process management system, digital or physical"). I don't feel that writing yourself a reminder to "fix stairs" is normal or a desirable process. At best: This feels similar to a CEO writing a jira ticket to "make website faster"; you…
I feel fixing stairs would be very actionable though, and something that I'd not remember other than when it almost fails under load or fails entirely.
I personally don't need a reminder to go off for a thing I need to do today or tomorrow, but something happening next week or next month that I need to check up on or arrange. Those tend to be the kind of expensive and really annoying thing to fix after neglecting
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#158I love paper, but it's difficult for me to organise the notes properly, I have no search function, screenshots, links, endless canvas, etc. I already own a Remarkable 2 but I really don't like it - it's not much more than an e-ink college block. After almost two years they added the function to draw straight lines, meanwhile I still can't search in handwritten notes - not even after converting them to text. You can a…
iPad Pro for handwriting is god tier. Can't do better IMO.
If only it was affordable.
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#159I love paper, but it's difficult for me to organise the notes properly, I have no search function, screenshots, links, endless canvas, etc. I already own a Remarkable 2 but I really don't like it - it's not much more than an e-ink college block. After almost two years they added the function to draw straight lines, meanwhile I still can't search in handwritten notes - not even after converting them to text. You can a…
E-ink tablets come in all kinds of functionalities : https://ewritable.com/best-e-ink-tablets/#Best_Dedicated_Not... > [...] > The native note-taking software has some really nice and unique features that I find really useful. For example, when I start a new page, I write the title at the top, and then lasso-select it and turn it into a heading and the Supernote automatically builds me a Table of Contents based on my…
Supernote was the alternative to the RM2, but the RM2 was bought by my workplace - I would have preferred the Supernote due to exactly these features. It's not just a fancy college block.
I think a new version of the A5 is coming out this or next year, but they're generally pretty expensive - almost as expensive as the Samsung Tab.
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#160I use a special Telegram chat for Todo lists, this way I can share it with my assistant, and I can use speech to text to add items.