For nearly 30 years I have been using a combination of a .txt file, the Mac stickies app and my calendar app. Works like a charm.
I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
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#653Re: I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
#654This app is similar in concept (but Markdown):
https://github.com/unvalley/ephe
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#655I also tried a lot of todo apps and ended up with a sheet of paper :D
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#656Reading through the comments under this thread, there are many users who swear by a plain text file, but who then build quite a lot of snowflake software to regain functionality offered by more structured TODO applications. That includes: - having your computer alert you to things that come up - being able to tag notes - being able to add events to a calendar - being able to set priority of tasks - expecting prioriti…
I like caldav instead with todoman. Allows me to use reminder/whatever on my phone, sync with fastmail and also have my CLI todo list.
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#657There was a period in my life when, just like OP, I tried many TODO apps. With each new app that I tried, I was filled with immense expectation that this finally is the app that will help me get my life in order. Needless to say, the early high was soon filled with inevitable dread, as the items and lists in the app kept on growing and I struggled to keep up with the brutal requirements of life as it is. There were c…
> Needless to say, the early high was soon filled with inevitable dread, as the items and lists in the app kept on growing and I struggled to keep up with the brutal requirements of life as it is.
That resonates with me.
I also think that OP tried to use his TODO app for habits:
>> Todoist: Great until I realized I was gaming the points system instead of doing actual work. Turns out completing “drink water” 8 times a day doesn’t make you productive.
I use a very simple habit tracker to track the things I want to do regularly, it has no gamification, just a simple notification once per day per habit.
These days I don't use a TODO app regularly; everyday tasks such as groceries, household tasks etc. work fine without it. When lots of tasks pile up and I struggle to keep track, I use a text file. Those are usually short-lived.
I also have a shared Todoist list with my wife, but we mostly use it for as a shopping list, not really a TODO app.
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#658Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I am not going to completely change my editor and rebuild two decades of optimization just to use two Emacs tools. Change your editor and rebuild two decades of optimisation in order to use Emacs, two Emacs tools, and also every other Emacs tool out there. Org Mode, TRAMP, Magit, gptel, eglot, flycheck, elfeed, ERC, Emms, EWW … there are a ton of reasons to use Emacs. Or you can keep using less-capable systems and…
Your argument highlights its own flaw; changing your editor opens up a world of tooling that's certainly adequate for most use cases you can throw at it, but it also requires either discarding or (worse) un-learning all of the tooling that you've learned for your current editor. For example, I'm perfectly content to use nvim as my primary editor, and this was born out of having to develop for and administer literally…
> If I switched to Emacs locally, I'd still have to maintain a working knowledge of vi and context switch when in a remote shell.
Even ignoring the possibility of installing Emacs on remote systems, there are still alternatives:
1. You can run remote shells within Emacs, and edit files remotely using TRAMP. When you are editing a remote file, shell commands run from Emacs run on the remote system.
2. You could use Evil, the Emacs implementation of vim. Then you would use the same bindings everywhere.
3. I have been running Emacs locally for literal decades now, but I still remember and use vi frequently, both locally and remotely. It’s really not a problem.
I feel like there must be an editor version of the Blub Paradox.
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#659Then, finally you reach the last layer: a 4" x 6" notepad and pen that are always kept at your desk
I prefer A4, but yeah. I adopted something roughly based on Bullet Journal about 6 or 7 years ago and now on my 4th book. There's something about manually writing and copying over TODOs to the next month that makes you really question if you still need to do it, and if you do, gives you a reminder that you still haven't done it. I use a few basic markers copied from standard bullet journal, which work well as a dot c…
> There's something about manually writing and copying over TODOs to the next month that makes you really question if you still need to do it, and if you do, gives you a reminder that you still haven't done it.
This is also key for me. Striking through an item that's on my list for some time and that I just decided doesn't matter feels just as good as marking some item as done. Undecided items indeed go to the next list, and just the act of writing down the same item on a new list forces you to reconsider it.
List done? Timestamp it and throw it in the archive box.
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#660The author claims to have tried all Todo apps, and the lists only a fraction of the Todo apps available on the market. There's a reason why there are so many apps available, and without actually trying them all any conclusion is based on partial data.
i honestly don't think the author is claiming that /literally/ - it's often a figure of speech in English. My kids say it "all the kids at school " - doesn't mean they meant literally every single student who attends.