I made a quick plugin to vscode where F6 opens up a specific text file on my disk. This is where I capture all these things. For me the trick is that there is no formatting. It's just a rough scratch pad to make short lived lists or things I need to remember.
My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
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Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#52I tried the todo.txt approach, but found I wanted to have secure access from any device (including devices I don't own), so went with an easy cloud option: https://five.today
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#53I currently use Google Tasks for Todos and I honestly have never been happier. To make Google Tasks work you have to be using Gmail and Google Calendar (which may be a non-starter for some people), but if you are using those already then Google Tasks is worth taking a look.
The beauty of Google Tasks is it lives alongside your email, integrates seamlessly with the calendar, and automatically synchronizes across devices. The interface is super simple and intuitive (drag/drop for prioritizing and simple completion), yet powerful enough to allow for things like setting up recurring tasks.
I especially like scheduling tasks for items I know I have coming up a week or so out. When I know I have something coming up, I just enter the date/time and a description and I'm done. (Maybe all of 10 seconds?) It's so much faster than trying to put something in a calendar and I find myself offloading all of these things I have to remember from my brain and just rely on my device.
It has been very freeing. :)
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#54For people on the go that need somewhat more organization I like iAWriter for iPhone (let’s you use md files for notes) and then you can also edit the markdown files directly on your laptop in the iCloud folder. Everything syncs up nicely in a nonproprietary format it’s seriously life changing
I have thought about different apps for this txt-approach for iOS, and you’re right. iA Writer seems to be perfect for this.
Yup! And if you work in a team and need version control for your notes there’s an app called Working Copy which integrates perfectly. Then you push changes directly to a git repo which acts as your source of truth
https://www.macstories.net/ios/my-markdown-writing-and-colla...
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#55I've been using an Excel file (https://i-kh.net/2019/10/20/how-i-keep-the-side-project-movi...) for week-to-week goals and tracking how I do.
I find it's a bit more structured, and easier to review afterwards. Though I still use text file for organizing a day's work.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#56I made a quick plugin to vscode where F6 opens up a specific text file on my disk. This is where I capture all these things. For me the trick is that there is no formatting. It's just a rough scratch pad to make short lived lists or things I need to remember.
Any chance you could share this plugin?
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#57I just started writing key metrics of mine in a small physical notebook every day. I write tally marks for each glass of water I drink, jot down any supplements I take, and also track the weight of dumbbells/plates I lift that day. I also use it to track any big TODO's. I've tried all of these things digitally but I've never had the follow-through as with paper.
How do you analyze the data afterwards? Or for what reason are you keeping such detailed records of your life of?
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#58My favourite "productivity app" is not an app at all. It's a plain old notebook. I write down any notes and actions I need to take, and strike through them once finished. It has a nice benefit that I can scribble notes, draw lines between ideas, sketch out diagrams, etc.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#59I currently use Google Tasks for Todos and I honestly have never been happier. To make Google Tasks work you have to be using Gmail and Google Calendar (which may be a non-starter for some people), but if you are using those already then Google Tasks is worth taking a look. The beauty of Google Tasks is it lives alongside your email, integrates seamlessly with the calendar, and automatically synchronizes across devic…
I like tasks in my inbox too, so I setup a filter to label all emails to & from myself to be labeled "ToDo". Then I just send myself an Email and it's unified with the "ToDos" that other people email me.
Re: My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file
#60More and more I am going back to simple tools. The simpler the better. I think using a pure text file with the basic GNU command line tools is very powerful and more flexible than anything. Just remember to keep it in git!