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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.
I use TickTick. I saw the author tried it but didn’t actually write about it under “What Actually Happened With Each App” I use TickTick over Todoist and other apps because it’s basically a .txt file dump for me, but with notifications and reoccurring tasks /shrug
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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…
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DTSTART:with week
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DTSTART: with hours
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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…
>There's a great meme with the classic intelligence bell curve setup This meme has taken on the character of the "Einstein was bad at math and school" urban legend. Yes, you can overthink it, but you can also under-think it if you picture yourself to be some romantic-era genius sitting in a heap of notes. If you want to go meta you might as well put the usage of that meme on the middle of the curve. You don't need 15…
Sorry, but the whole point of the meme is that you get stuck in this mindset and you think you're talking to the grug side making your argument, when you might actually be talking to someone who's emerged from the far side of this particular Dunning-Kruger test.
As I said, I've been through the systems, I've been mindful, I've made connections and structure, I wrote my own wiki software half a lifetime ago... and in the end... there's just not that much value to it, I found. I don't really find much in my old notes that ever helps me enough to be worth the additional effort.
For a while, when I had an office, I enjoyed a post-it note based "system" where I'd just stick notes in places around my monitor, which is ugly and I hate seeing them, so they get done in order to help me clean up. I'd do that again if I had an office again...
I'm a fan of Org Mode with Emacs [0] and using the app BeOrg [1] on my iPhone. I have 3 main task files: - todo.org for things I need to do - backlog.org for things that I don't have to do now but should do in the future - inbox.org for any random ideas or notes The concept of an Inbox was taken straight from Getting Things Done [2]. I have different searches set up in BeOrg so that it is easy to view tasks from each…
I like Org Mode but I feel like custom agenda views are not really as flexible as they should be, and as soon as you want to do something outside of the bounds of what Org offers with its settings for the built-in agenda views you have to go on a deep dive into the emacs lisp For example I wanted the global TODO list view to show next to each entry when the TODO was scheduled for, but there's really no way to modify…
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>I find it a buggy mess where everything works only 80% I don't want to be mean but calling Emacs a buggy mess sounds like a skill issue.
Probably. Cant get a good IDE with debugging for c#, can’t get emails with events etc to sync two way with all my providers, same with calendars, etc.
I've never tried debugging C# from within emacs (though eglot with omnisharp solves all the other IDE needs like goto, see references, renaming and such). I think you're more likely to find help on r/emacs or https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79516308/how-to-debug-c-... or something for that.
The funny thing is, the answer to: > Why This Actually Works isn't anything the author lists under that heading. It's actually what he says above: > Every night, I check tomorrow’s calendar. I dump everything into the next day’s section. Scheduled items get times in front. Sub-bullets hold notes or reminders. Finished tasks? I delete them or add what happened. Still on the list? Not done yet. That’s it. That's why it…
The important difference is automatic recurring tasks, and daily task will show up outside the app as that red bubble on its icon indicating how many things "need" to be done today, the rest is optional.
Crucially, you need to commit to it, and use it everyday - even if just a little. The authors notepad works because it's a daily simple thing, like you said.
The funny thing is, the answer to: > Why This Actually Works isn't anything the author lists under that heading. It's actually what he says above: > Every night, I check tomorrow’s calendar. I dump everything into the next day’s section. Scheduled items get times in front. Sub-bullets hold notes or reminders. Finished tasks? I delete them or add what happened. Still on the list? Not done yet. That’s it. That's why it…
One of the biggest insights of David Allen's "Getting Things Done" is the daily review. If you're not reviewing your system isn't working. Build a habit/ritual around that and you're in great shape. Cal Newport also talks about this.
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Blurring into each other is exactly the problem.. you become numb to both.
Yes this! Numb to both and the notification/reminders from both and it starts becoming like furniture in the room (it's there but ignored)
If you put non-date-specific TODOs in your calendar, then as soon as the number of TODOs in that system becomes overwhelming, you stop looking at your calendar and start missing appointments & truly date specific reminders.
If you put date-dependent TODOs in your task tracking system, then every time you look at it you see a bunch of stuff you can't move on and you quickly lose effectiveness.
If something is dependent on a specific date or time, either because it is an appointment or because it is nonactionable until then, put it in a calendar or tickler file. If not, keep it the hell away from your calendar and put it on a TODO list (plain text file is fine). This keeps both systems effective.
> tried every Mentions just 5 Does not mention Markdown once.