Clickup. Technically it’s a project manager, but it’s relatively cheap and I’ve been using it for years now.
None because I don’t do shit.
I didn’t do shit, but I use TickTick to help organize the shit I’m not doing.
My main requirement is that it has to be available on my heavily locked down work phone and work laptop as well as my home ones. If it isnt in my face whenever I look at a screen, it isnt going to work. So it ends up being Google tasks.
I’ve tried so many and even programmed my own and none of them worked for me. I was especially disappointed in the ones that claimed to be AI-assisted.
I wrote one many times over during my career that was amazingly effective, not just for myself but others, too. I can’t figure out how to write it for the phone because I am a crummy programmer. I would love to have it again. It had one feature that I am unable to find on any other to-do list app.
What was the feature?
Zero or more prerequisite tasks. End to start dependencies in project management parlance.
Me too! This and auto-populating a “do next” sublist are key features that no commercial software seems to have.
In my last version I had a single list of tasks, and each had a list of “excuses” which were pointers to other tasks. I had filters for showing “all tasks”, “not done”, “can be done”. The one other feature that was helpful was being able to reorder tasks.
Maybe I will get back to work on it. I thought I had found a perfect set of alpha users in the /r/productivity sub, but I’m not on reddit anymore.
Keep us in the loop?
Certainly.
I just got used to being disappointed in myself and don’t make lists anymore.
Went back to college last year and Joplin’s been amazing. More off-topic, but the only thing I wish it had was better search result organization.
I use a mix of Org mode via Emacs and Orgzly,
and Notally, which is still my main notes app while I’m still working on transitioning to Orgmode completely.
I use Trello to manage several lists (recurring daily, Tuesdays only, one-offs, etc) and reconcile them into a daily plan each morning
Weird to not see (at the time I’m writing this) any mentions of “todoist” which people on forums have loved for ages. I’m not a fan at all so I’m glad to finally not see it as frequently. My preference for work, where I have multiple categories and statuses (including a “done and waiting for the other person to confirm” status) is Trello with some automations. For home, just simple reliable entry on phone and desktop, is Ticktick. I particularly love the natural date parsing built into Ticktick (can also be done in Trello with an automation), very useful for super fast task entry and due date/time scheduling.
A piece of paper folded in my pocketand a travel sized pen…
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How do you get reminders from that? 🙃
You go “Oh, right” then take it out and look at it. As quaint as that sounds, for some people it works.
Since my second child, my “Oh right” module has been malfunctioning and has been very unreliable, and the amount of things I need to remember is waaay too many to fit on a piece of paper that can fit in my pocket. I wish I could use your system. 🥲
For sure, there’s no way this system would work for me either! I would need a to do list in another place that had a task to check the first to do list.
Google Calendar
My nextcloud + Deck
Org mode on GNU Emacs.
Superproductivity but I’m so irresponsible. Every to do list app I do, I never follow through.
Same (wrt that last part). Trying to find one that works but it’s honestly exhausting after years of seeing them all be pretty much the same. And I can’t really articulate what it is that would make it be the one for me. I know I’m not helping in any way here, lol
I would give superoroductivity a go. You just mark stuff you need to do throughout the week and you can separate your different “projects”. It has a nice weekly view and everything as well.
I make lists in Simplenote. I also add stuff to my native Reminders app and then ignore them notifications or keep pushing them off by setting them to fire again later. Sometimes I actually get around to them when I need a task to keep me busy during podcasts.
