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Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by jFriedensreich »

jFriedensreich wrote: post #46

i gave up on “managing” it. i have a giant text file with maximum of one level indentation for subtasks in vscode. i just append anything as one task per line that i have to do or remember and then go about my day. i only ever get back to it if i really think i forgot something. occasionally i will delete a few lines that are not needed anymore or done when i notice while adding something new. the main purpose is to…

i arrived at this setup with three learnings over the past 2 decades:

written notes are simple but not readable too often especially when written on the go

all tools eventually let you down, sudden duplicates, missing entries (an accidentally unlocked phone in the pocket and your tasks can randomly disappear) proprietary companies closing down or changing, forgetting to maintain some self hosted solution etc.

the things i want to do and never finish or start are growing so much quicker than anything done that there is not even a point in sorting or tagging or anything where finishing the task is an important part of the workflow. in the end you only can do one single thing, and most people know intuitively what that is.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by hammyhavoc »

knbrlo wrote: post #32

One word: Todoist. - I've been using it for 7 years and there's nothing better out there.

"nothing better out there" is quite a bias.

OK, let's start with reason #1 why Todoist is incredibly limited: you can't do 'blocking' tasks, thus you are presented with non-actionable tasks.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by randomsearch »

All productivity tools require some “farming” or “gardening”, that is tending to regularly to maintain them.

Every morning I burn through my emails. then run through my calendar, then my todo lists, then make a plan for the day. You have to keep revisiting and updating.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by brenainn »

I've kept everything in a single text file for a few years now. I store it in github and have some scripts to sync it, append to it with a time stamp and do some other things. At the start of the day I look at yesterday's entry, and then I add to the new entry throughout the day and when I log off. It's a todo list and knowledge store, like if I fix some obscure issue I'll write what I did there. Initially I cared a lot about structure and tried to maintain it as a task list with a particular syntax, but now I write dot points and short paragraphs about whatever I'm doing. I do want to fancy it up someday and create an indexing system based on tags/topics, but it's done the job thus far.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by nickdothutton »

I use task warrior, which is a cli based tool mentioned elsewhere in the comments. However I use it both interactively (1 task at a time) and with a couple of bash scripts to create entire "projects" with dependencies in it. 1 command, a project name and sub-project name, a deadline, and 10 or 20 tasks are created for me.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by seedie »

To be honest, most of the time I lack the discipline to track my tasks in a tool. But what came closest to being useful for me is Super Productivity[0]. It's MIT licensed, can be integrated with Jira, GitHub, Gitlab and Open Project and has a built in Pomodoro Timer that helps me to find focus.

[0] https://github.com/johannesjo/super-productivity

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage – and remember to manage – your to-do list in 2022?

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Post by hammyhavoc »

Snowworm wrote: post #26
dom96 wrote: post #14

I have been (ab)using GitHub issues for todos, notes, links and other notes for around 5 years now. I keep it in a private repo called "me" and it works quite well. I can easily label different issues by "Health" (one example of a label I use to track ideas for how I can be more healthy) or "ToDo"/"High Priority" and searching through them works quite well too.

How is this any better than a to-do list app? It seems way more complicated and it's not GitHub's intended use case.

It isn't. Issues sucks for tracking tasks.
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