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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

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Post by codazoda »

mockingloris wrote: post #241
codazoda wrote: post #199

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I geeked out a bit, after reading another blog post, and used my thermal printer for this. I've been using it for a few weeks now. The little sticky notes it makes are great. https://joeldare.com/trying-to-stop-procrastination-with-my-... I am starting to collect too many of them though. I kinda like the idea of ops text-file because it is renewed from day to day. I'm still not quite sure how to deal with the items I…

I came across a similar post on YouTube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg45b8UXoZI - it's titled "I Fixed My ADHD with a Receipt Printer" . I should build one that sends me an SMS message instead. So I stumbled on AT+ plus code for programing GSM devices. I have a MTN HUAWEI E303 modem from back in 2016 and I wrote a server using the npm serialport module. I just need to write a dmenu script that pipes from every 3…

How do you (or do you plan to) use SMS as a todo list? I can't even remember to reply to someone who texted me when I as busy.

Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

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Post by hhmc »

Aurornis wrote: post #253
pancakemouse wrote: post #198

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What this shows to me, as someone who has committed some of the unholy crimes above, is that people want their system, however esoteric, to come naturally to them. I think reading docs, understanding a new system which someone else has designed, and fitting one's brain into _their_ organisational structure is the hard part. Harder than designing one's own system. It's the reason many don't stick with an off-the-shelf…

> What this shows to me, as someone who has committed some of the unholy crimes above, is that people want their system, however esoteric, to come naturally to them I think this is a vocal minority. Outside of internet comment sections, most everyone I know doesn’t care that much about their todo list software. The most productive people I ever worked with all had really minimal productivity software. For one person…

There’s a now quite dated comment from Merlin Mann: "Joining a Facebook group about productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.”

It’s fuzzy - but my recollection was Mann was a fairly renown productivity influencer (although I guess we wouldn’t have called it that then), who had an apostasy about it all.

Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

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Post by submeta »

There‘s text based and there‘s text based.

I keep my tasks in textfiles (markdown) as well. Not one, but several, for all kinds of projects. And I view my files in Obsidian, although I open them in neovim as well, searching via ripgrep, finding via fd, fzf, viewing via bat. All in terminal.

Textfiles are great.

Emacs + orgmode is also an excellent choice, but that’s all tied to Emacs. And Orgmode files do not render nicely in other editors/viewers. Besides it‘s overkill. Trying to do everything in one app. I prefer the Unix way. Do one thing and do it good.

Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

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Post by ghostly_s »

xz18r wrote: post #39

There is a format called todo.txt that works follows very readable syntax (like your own example) and has some minimal bells and whistles if you want it to: http://todotxt.org/ As an alternative: I started using org-mode 5 years ago and have never looked back. This is my workflow ( https://karelvo.com/blog/orgmode ) although I sync it via Git now, and have an iPhone where I use Plain Org ( https://xenodium.com/plain-…

Lost me at "But it's not easy to open todo.txt, make a change, and save it"—huh??

Clicked around a bit and found nothing describing how "todo.txt" is better than todo.txt (great branding), and seems to offer no solutions for iOS.

Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

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Post by zenoprax »

I tried 'todo.txt' and gave up when I needed more control over recurrency and other small details (I also missed being able to attach files to tasks for quick reference).

Currently setting up [DAVx5](https://www.davx5.com/tested-with) to be used with [jtx Board](https://jtx.techbee.at/sync-with-davx5#setup) and [Radicale](https://radicale.org/v3.html). It's quite a bit of overhead at first but then I can trivially manage my calendar and contacts afterwards.

CalDAV has provisions for [vTODO](https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-6-2-to-do-compone...) and [vJOURNAL](https://icalendar.org/iCalendar-RFC-5545/3-6-3-journal-compo...) so my hope is that this is a durable FOSS solution to aid in getting out of some Google services.

Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

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Post by OhioMan2943 »

dennisthemenace wrote: post #291
OhioMan2943 wrote: post #23

things 3 is fantastic and access to it is an actual factor in what devices i buy

Things3 has also worked incredibly well for me for the past 4 years. My only wish is that they would roll out a version for Windows. I have been in the Apple ecosystem for quite some time so it was never a problem until I built a gaming PC that I also started using for work. As a result of this switch, I have to rely heavily on my phone to manage tasks. I still think this beats a todo.txt file that I would have to pu…

Yep same here- moved to an android phone and been kicking myself over access, now i have to use it on my macbook

Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

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Post by treetalker »

gomako wrote: post #317

nvAlt must surely have been mentioned somewhere. It’s the best by far. Very simple markdown, searchable notes etc. there’s a new version in the works (and has been for some time) but the original is still great. The best thing is that the notes are just a folder of .txt files.

nvUltra is destined to become another Terpstra vaporware, I fear. The longer it's "almost done, I swear", the less likely anything will happen with it for the general public.
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