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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 catoc »

btilly wrote: post #509
f1shy wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the OP is far from saying what you are implying. He is not advocating for changing text editor or installing any plugins. Just recommends trying out org mode. I think is very valid. I’ve known many many people (in the order of hundreds) that use vi for editing in general but emacs for other tasks, e.g. org mode, sbcl repl, etc. I think the suggestion ist just to give org mode a try. No need to feel offended o…

To quote the OP: I would encourage everyone to try out emacs with org-mode. It takes some time to get used to the editor and its keybindings... He's literally recommending that everyone who doesn't use emacs should install and use a different text editor.

I see this just as someone being genuinely enthusiastic about their own approach, and trying to convince people out of that enthusiasm, to make them experience the same happiness they are getting from it. I think most of us here are old enough to know not to take recommendations from some dude on the internet as obligations, which, for me, just leaves the enthusiasm between the lines.

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

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Post by bjt12345 »

I actually find Obsidian is better than using a todo.txt.

In Obsidian, open the daily file amd copy the contents from yesterday. Anything big gets its own folder.

Screenshots...etc can be dumped into the Obsidian document.

OneSync app can sync files to OneDrive so I can read it on my phone.

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

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Post by seansh »

below43 wrote: post #497
seansh wrote: post #360

I've gone through this too and came to the same conclusion except for phone. While on laptop/desktop nothing beats txt (or md or org), it's just so uncomfortable using a text file like that on the phone and relying on dropbox or something. And I get it, all the note taking apps on the phone have issues: not local first, proprietary, subscriptions, or no encryption, or a thousand features before making sure the full t…

I tackled this years ago but found that having a todo list was too limiting. I ended up building a very simple scratchpad [1] (initially iOS and MacOS, then of late, a PWA version for everyone else...). [1] https://klipped.com

this is really nice. Really as simple as it gets.

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

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Post by dngray »

lelanthran wrote: post #331
btilly wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You give a long list of features that I don't want. And then go on to encourage everyone to switch text editors, and adopt a specific plugin that happens to work in the way that you personally like. As a vim user, this is kind of what I have come to expect from emacs users. Honestly, I'm glad that you've found something that works well for you. But I hope that some day you internalize the fact that other people aren'…

> As a vim user, this is kind of what I have come to expect from emacs users. I'm a vim user, with two exceptions: 1. SLIME 2. Org mode There's a vim plugin for org mode that I used to use, but TBH, Emacs excels at org mode.

> There's a vim plugin for org mode that I used to use, but TBH, Emacs excels at org mode.

Which one did you use? I use https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/ and am happy with it, it's fairly modern written as a lua script.

I did see an older one https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode but i don't think that's maintained anymore.

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

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Post by mnk47 »

bjt12345 wrote: post #572

I actually find Obsidian is better than using a todo.txt. In Obsidian, open the daily file amd copy the contents from yesterday. Anything big gets its own folder. Screenshots...etc can be dumped into the Obsidian document. OneSync app can sync files to OneDrive so I can read it on my phone.

> In Obsidian, open the daily file amd copy the contents from yesterday

What's the point of this? Isn't it easier to just keep reusing the same note?

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

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Post by grecht »

bryanhogan wrote: post #321

I just use a Kanban board for my to-do's, and it has been working amazingly well for years now. I sort stuff based on four columns, starting with the most important that should be done "today". I love Markdown files with editors such as Obsidian or Logseq, but found them to be suboptimal for to-do's / tasks.

There actually is a Kanban plugin for Obsidian [1]. I've been using it for a while and think it's pretty good. Each Kanban "card" can also be turned into a full note.

[1] https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban

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

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Post by mikestorrent »

listic wrote: post #496
mikestorrent wrote: post #495

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There's a great meme with the classic intelligence bell curve setup where the "grug" and the "elite" sides both use a plain text file with their own ideas of how to do things, and only the "midwit" in the middle is using a huge pile of tooling to accomplish roughly the same thing. I too went through the phase of using Dendron and Obsidian as well as more common todo list tools (and tickets)... and here I am back at A…

Why is capability to store a screenshot useful in a to-do list ?

TODO: Fix this

Takes like two or three seconds to add; then I continue doing what was more important, and flip back to this with a decent context jumpstart later.

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

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Post by seansh »

> “But what about collaboration?” - I use work tools for work. This is for my life.

I've been experimenting with this at work too. I created a separate internal git repo for the team with 4 never ending files:

- in-progress.md

- up-next.md

- for-future.md

- done.md

So far it's been easier to use than trello or any other project management platform.

Personally I use a single emacs org-mode file for my private work which is 30K lines as of today, but I'm not sure how other people's editors (vscode) handle big files like that.

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

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Post by temptemptemp111 »

mockingloris wrote: post #115

Markdown on Obsidian is a prestine setup. Can be used to embed many file types; media, documents, code snippets, graphs, ... all this can be linked and this unlocks so much context. Being able to sync that; My 2nd hand Lenovo running Linux and my Samsung S20 Phone. I am a tech creative and this is one of my vice. Having a todo is an opportunity to go through your experiences for clarity. └── Dev well

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