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Re: Legend

#51

From the quick demos on the website this seems like something I would absolutely love. However, after signing up, I'm presented with a big, blank, white document and have no clue where to begin or how things are supposed to link together. I closed it in less than 1 minute.

I usually think onboarding flows and tours are annoying, but just nothingness sounds a lot worse!

Re: Legend

#52
Why is it so common to bunch email, todos, and calendars together? Is this based on some memory of a desk from the 1980s, where one might sit down to write a letter to one's friend, check the calendar to see what date you should suggest meeting, and then mark on a sticky note that you need to get milk when you're at the grocery store?

Re: Legend

#54

From the quick demos on the website this seems like something I would absolutely love. However, after signing up, I'm presented with a big, blank, white document and have no clue where to begin or how things are supposed to link together. I closed it in less than 1 minute.

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Re: Legend

#55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

vi todo.txt the same file served me well for over a decade. :)

Stupid question, but what do you do from your phone? I would like to put my grocery list in the same system as the rest of my notes/todos.

I strongly recommend Simpletask (disclosure, I've sent a couple PRs). Not visually polished, but functionality is the best, bar none: Lua scripts allow extensive customization of your workflow. Free & open source. Only on F-Droid due to asinine Play Store policies.

Re: Legend

#57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

vi todo.txt the same file served me well for over a decade. :)

Stupid question, but what do you do from your phone? I would like to put my grocery list in the same system as the rest of my notes/todos.

That's the thing. I attempted to get into the org productivity zone a while ago but it fell apart the moment I needed mobile support and syncing. Unfortunately, the mobile org clients of the time didn't support syncing well enough to be viable for my use case - not to mention that all the customization I had painstakingly set up within emacs didn't transfer to the mobile clients either.

I suspect it's impractical to adapt the Emacs workflow to the task of syncing data across devices that is now the expected norm, and other services will have to rise up in its place. If all you have is a filesystem, up-to-date syncing across multiple devices is just a really hard problem (coming from someone who could never get Syncthing to work reliably).

However, I have heard of the remoteStorage protocol, which is supposed to be an open-source syncing protocol that replaces Dropbox and the like, but it's still in its infancy. Maybe adding support for it as a plugin to sync directly from Emacs, instead of using a "dumb" polling filesystem monitor, could become an option.

https://remotestorage.io

Re: Legend

#58

From the quick demos on the website this seems like something I would absolutely love. However, after signing up, I'm presented with a big, blank, white document and have no clue where to begin or how things are supposed to link together. I closed it in less than 1 minute.

The same here - I think templates would be a good fit!

+1 for templates. The big hurdle I hit with every productivity app is getting it set up.

I'd love to have some templates to play with, to find bits that work for me that I can copy from and stick together to end up with what I want.

I'm certain that almost everything I want an app like this to do can be done; the problem is I have no idea how to do it because I'm not familiar with how the app structures things. It's frustrating to start setting things up one way, only to discover there was a better way to do it and have to re-do everything.

Re: Legend

#59
All I want is a way to add tasks as items in my gmail inbox just like Google Inbox had, before they killed it. Does anyone make a Gmail plugin that adds that? I don't want to use a whole different email client or add tasks to a separate task-only list off to the side.

Re: Legend

#60

Here is a free tool that I made for better time-boxing: https://crushentropy.com/ (markdown for planning your day)

Some feedback:

* Your terms of service (as linked on the "Sign-in" prompt when signing up) leads to /terms which doesn't exist.

* It's not very visibly obvious that the sign-in prompt will lead to a sign-up flow.

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