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Re: GTD in 15 Minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

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Post by aeroaks » Wed, Nov 22, 2017, 9:59 AM UTC

bkanber wrote: post #48

Similar to GTD, I use a technique called "Bullet Journaling" [1] and it's been transformative. It's less opinionated than GTD and I find it flows a bit more readily. I find it ironic that as a tech CTO I'm connected to my phone and computer probably 80% of my day and love playing with productivity and organizational tools -- yet I've still never found anything better than putting pen to paper! I keep a small pocket-s…

I feel the same. I always have my notebook with me. Tried various apps but I get back to my notebook everytime. Will definitely try "Bullet Journaling". Thanks

Re: GTD in 15 Minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

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Post by eru » Wed, Nov 22, 2017, 3:39 PM UTC

mhd wrote: post #23

eru wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the voice notes: Google's voice recognition has improved markedly in recent years. Now it can even understand my German-accented English rather well.

I don't mind typing the notes once I'm in front of a real computer, I just don't want to do the "note to myself" while in public. And otherwise, I haven't found anything that gets me to capture things like "note: buy eggs" or "note: consider PEGs for the query builder optimization" fast enough. (Opening an app and laboriously using the mobile keyboard don't do it for me in the long run and just cause me to drop GTD a…

I found opening the Google Keep app on my phone to be fairly painless to quickly jot something down. I really like the location based reminders that Google introduced across the board.

Re: GTD in 15 Minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

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Post by strls » Thu, Nov 23, 2017, 7:40 AM UTC

zamazingo wrote: post #3

Emacs Org-Mode, along with its org-capture mode and the ability to clock in/out, is a perfect tool to implement this, btw. https://emacs.cafe/emacs/orgmode/gtd/2017/06/30/orgmode-gtd.... http://orgmode.org/worg/org-gtd-etc.html

Org-Mode can work, but it's not for everybody. I tried using it for GTD for more than a year, but ended up gradually abandoning it. It was too much friction when I least need it.

One problem is that it encourages to put both to-dos and reference material in the same place. I found this makes things a mess more often than not.

Also, it forced me to learn Emacs way more than I otherwise needed, instead of focusing on work.

I did enjoy some aspects of it though. All my to-do history from that time is still searchable. And I didn't have to upload my work and personal data to some random SaaS provider.

I actually ended up building a desktop GTD tool [1] based on those needs. It looks good, is low-friction and pleasant to use, runs on Linux, stores data in a local Sqlite DB. No subscription. But it's on Electron. I know HN seems to hate Electron apps.

[1] https://everdo.net/

Re: GTD in 15 Minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done

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Post by zamazingo » Sat, Nov 25, 2017, 1:59 PM UTC

lypextin wrote: post #12

zamazingo wrote: post #3

Emacs Org-Mode, along with its org-capture mode and the ability to clock in/out, is a perfect tool to implement this, btw. https://emacs.cafe/emacs/orgmode/gtd/2017/06/30/orgmode-gtd.... http://orgmode.org/worg/org-gtd-etc.html

I was always curious about trying this, but has always been put off by the Emacs part of it. How much Emacs do you need to know to use this comfortably?

Apart from the actual set up to include org-capture in it, not much.

Shortcuts to open a file (C-x C-f), close it (C-x k), and closing emacs (C-x C-c) would be the emacs shortcuts you'd need to learn. The rest would be org-mode shortcuts, like setting something as done (C-c C-t d) etc.

You will have to get used to being in Emacs though, that's for sure :)