> If the reminder was 'i see you are going in the direction of a store: we need milk if you have time to stop' that would work. Reminders basically does have this: you can set a given item to alert when you are arriving/leaving from a specific location.
I don't know that app, but I don't want a specific location - milk can be had at hundreds of different stores in my town. While it isn't all the same there are only about 4 different suppliers to all those stores.
It's not so bad when out of those hundreds of stores, you only shop at one or two. Few, if any of us, show at all the possible stores in town.
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?
There are apps for iOS that will read .org files and allow you to edit them and include the ability to sync with iCloud. beorg is one of them. I'm not sure about Android, but I have to imagine they exist there as well.
I spent several years trying to make a custom todo system and ended up back where I started using CalDAV and a basic todo app and calendar. Turns out I was always procrastinating because I didn't want to force myself to adapt to something simple.
I used to use caldav but then stopped because there was once a bug on the server side where I couldn't delete events. The main thing I also don't like is there's no encryption or privacy really from the provider unless you go with a more a less proprietary solution like from an encrypted email provider. The closest I saw was EteSync but it requires special apps, and can include special bugs :) I also don't need my im…
Most of my daily agenda is also stored in my employer's Google Workspace. CalDAV is the common protocol for exchanging and storing events. Most of my task entries don't have a due date, I just sort them by priority.
I understand the privacy concerns, I can host a nextcloud in a secure location if I need it.
Sounds like you need an assistant haha. I’m glad your system is working though.
Just in case it wasn’t obvious, there are a bunch of “Expect X to have happened by now” type tasks in there. These are basically dead man’s switches to remind me to check on someone else’s progress vs a timeline - ala @patio11’s “dangerous professional”
GTD (Getting Things Done) has a similar concept called "Waiting for".
I have tried multiple of those mentioned in the article and also text files. Ended uo with Tasks.org foss android app which syncs over webdav with nextcloud and similar. Works wonderfully even offline and in my opinionnis more convenient than a text file.
I use Todoist in a very light weight fashion. I add tasks and they sit on my screen until they're done, basically identical to a text file. I've never used the points, projects, labels, etc. It does one thing a text file struggles at: scheduling recurring tasks and adding notes to a recurring task. I have annual reminders for infrequent, but important stuff. For example, I have a recurring annual task to review my in…
Came here to say this, thanks. Only thing to add is that I like the "inbox" feature in Todoist (plus a single catchall project). I get overeager during the day and add a bunch of stuff. The inbox makes it easy for me to mostly just remove things I won't actually do but then file away the stuff I might for later. I've put weekly chores into a single recurring task and do them on Sundays or kick back another day or two…
It’s hypocritical for me to offer personal productivity advice, but here I go.
Weekly chores should be on a printed checklist on a clipboard kept in the kitchen or similar. These are wholly predictable items and are just clutter in a todo application, which should be devoted to making sense of the “everything else” in life.
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.
Didn't mean it that way, I knew you were not attacking me and I understood you were mediating perspectives and not really advocating for any. My response wasn't targeted at you just the generalities being discussed. But you're right that I just really do not like that the world in general has decided to grovel for the approval of the lowest common denominator. I shouldn't have to mince my words to that degree. I was just expressing how I feel like someone being affect in the way the GP was, amounts to a lack of reading comprehension if they read into my comment the way they did.