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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 recfab »

skydhash wrote: post #423
ralferoo wrote: post #316

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If there's really a hyperlink I need, I might e-mail it to myself, add it to a text file in an appropriate place in the appropriate project, leave the tab open in my browser, or just do the task now. But IMHO none of that is related to the todo list, which is stuff like "7 · Fred's birthday". It's about remembering things that I need/want to do, and in a way that's tactile and I can reflect on it whether I'm using th…

For me, it’s not about remembering what I have to do. It’s mostly about capturing the context and track what I have done.

I recently tried out Task Warrior for tasks and this is why I switched back to Obsidian + DataView.

Forgetting to check TW is the big reason it didn't work, but the secondary reason is that I take a lot dev logs on context and the `annotate` command is too clumsy to be practical for that.

I like the idea of a CLI tool for todos, but it needs to integrate with my notes.

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Post by GeneralMaximus »

conductr wrote: post #736
GeneralMaximus wrote: post #662

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I think @mock-possum was responding negatively to the tone of your post, not the content of it. The division of labor within your relationship is nobody's business but your own. If it works for you and your partner, nobody has a right to question it. However, when you say this: > At work, I use my calendar. At home, I have a wife. Then you're talking about your partner as if they were an appliance of piece of softwar…

There was no tone. It was just concise. The problem is people online read things so literally they'd rather take offense than consider they're reading it wrongly. Such a lack of critical thinking in a world that is so heavily text based, lacking in context of body language and actual tone. > This is the sort of language that makes many people feel unwelcome on HN Really? How do you navigate as a functional person IRL…

You're being unfairly combative. I was supplying a different perspective you may not have considered, and you assumed it was a personal attack. It wasn't.

I don't think this will be a productive conversation. Let's just agree we feel differently about how words affect people and move on.

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Post by jama211 »

komali2 wrote: post #586
jama211 wrote: post #379

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Very well said. People here are interested in poking holes in things, instead of actually being productive. Again, we should just look at what actually productive people tend to do, which in my experience is generally to just use whatever works and not spend too much time thinking about optimising todo systems.

In my experience the most productive people I've met have secretaries. I finally hired one two months ago for 500 bucks a month and it was a life changing increase in productivity and decrease in stress.

That may be putting the chicken before the egg somewhat, but sure.

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Post by jama211 »

egypturnash wrote: post #503
nosianu wrote: post #287

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But if it's AR you can have a cute hamster run up to you and holding an urgent note. Or the hare from Alice in Wonderland. And it can just sit on your desk (virtually) and do cute things while you continue to finish what you were working on. Better than a boring annoying beeping alarm. We have not even started combining digital an real world, and the last few idea, e.g. from Meta, were devoid of anything useful, show…

this sounds like an apocalyptic amount of work to set up

I think that guy might have had one too many coffees if you know what I mean…

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Post by alloutofnickels »

t_mann wrote: post #271
Igrom wrote: post #92

Reading 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…

How about having a synced and editable version of your to-do list on all your devices, including mobile? I've found that to be the main filter for note taking setups. You seem to suggest that there's an emacs plug-in that can handle that?

I don't use emacs but vi on all of my devices. This should probably work with emacs stuff if they save it in regular files/directories. I put everything in ~/notes. Quick sync before leaving the house, sync when I return. Can use your desktop as the central location if you don't have a home server. Works with termux on android. I think iphone has iSh or something for alpine.

Swap src and dest as necessary (could use other options but this is compatible with OpenBSD openrsync): rysnc -rlpt --delete notes/ user@lanip:notes

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Post by e40 »

moi2388 wrote: post #640
e40 wrote: post #11

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One of the most absurd comments I’ve seen here in a long time.

Please tell me how to accomplish my use cases in emacs then :)

Do you expect us to read your mind?

I've been using GNU emacs since the beginning, when I switched from Gosling emacs. The first few years had crashes, but since it's been one of the most stable pieces of software I've ever used.

Your claims are just preposterous, especially without any substantiation.

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Post by jFriedensreich »

edu wrote: post #411
jFriedensreich wrote: post #409

This would be amazing if obsidian mobile did not take 10 seconds to start or even recover from being in the background and lose scroll position every time. For the desktop I would be absolutely happy with all todos in a simple markdown file. There can also be any number of UIs on top of markdown that people use over the years and grow out of but as long as the base system is markdown files you get the best of both wo…

Where does the author talk about obsidian?

He did not. I just pointed out if obsidian mobile would not have these flaws i could live in the reality he describes.

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Post by makapuf »

eadmund wrote: post #544
makapuf wrote: post #237

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Am i the only one to generally find those directories getting in the way ? I have very few videos or music, or even images worth storing as images and not related to other documents. Downloads and documents might be useful but then, documents is almost everything that is not online so why not put it in $HOME. And I don't like capitalized folders but that's me.

man 5 user-dirs.dirs I hate the default directory names, and like you I hate the capitalisation — fortunately they can be overridden.

Thanks. But then, starting discussion, what would be a sensible directory choice? downloads, backups ? Nothing?
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