My Kanban board has a serious issue of having tasks that I don't know why they are their. I'll add them at a time that makes sense, and then a month later, I'm like, "wut?"
I’m confident that a reminder app that physically hurt me every 5 minutes until I did a task would not be enough to get me moving. I would hit the 10 minute snooze button on the high voltage electrode until my skin was charred. I would also fail to book an appointment to get those burns looked at.
But how do you remember to use the reminder?
And how do you remember to use whatever you use to remember to use the reminder?
And how do you remember to use whatever you use to remember to use whatever you use to remember to use the reminder?
the beauty of reminders is that that is the only thing you have to remember is to check reminders. Make it a daily habit. The same way you wake up and brush your teeth, you can then check reminders daily
Let’s say you do somehow remember that, how do you even trust your own memories? What if it’s an implanted memory from a brain chip? What if this is all a dream? If I am the one who possesses these memories, who is the one observing them? What if we’re all figments of each other’s imagination?
I prefer to use the Microsoft 365 suite of products. They’re reliable, integrated, and a great value for the money considering how much cloud storage you get.
✅ list, reminders and calendar views (try to) keep me on track with client work
🌨️ sync lets my wife & I share grocery lists, notes, etc. across the comp, kitchen iPad & our phones
Each have a free profile, but we keep it simple so don't need to pay for AI, DBs, etc.
Reminders. Some set by time, with pre-emptive reminders, and others set by location so they remind me when I'm at the place I need to be reminded about. Generally Bunnings.
I think this is because the satisfaction of planning and preparing out shines the doing. "Great, I'm getting my shit together!" vs "check, I filed my taxes"
I just make notes on Google keep and then proceed to entirely forget them until I later remember and look them up
Then comes the fun part of deciphering the inscrutable abbreviations I used instead of typing the actual words
When I forget to mark my tasks completed for the day and it gets to 11:59pm, my productivity app decided to remind me that I haven't done my tasks by bombarding me with one notification per task I haven't finished, leading to me having a panic attack at 11:59pm basically every night
Google Tasks. It's the only one that still works with Google Assistant, and if I can't just speak into the air and ask to be reminded of something, it just doesn't work for me
@habitica.com has been the only thing that's worked for me so far, it's got gaming-style rewards for getting things done and consequences for neglecting them
I've set up a pretty robust workspace in Notion with a lot of automations to help me stay on task and prioritize projects and tasks. It's a bit of work to set up but very customized to my specific needs.
I agree. @notion.com keeps track of everything for me, from tax filing deadlines to Xmas party guest lists. Once I had it set up, I was stunned at how much more I accomplished. My life would be a chaotic pile of missed deadlines & forgotten tasks without it. I'm hopelessly hooked. #Notion
It's pretty incredible what others in the notion community have set up. I have a small web dev business, a fly fishing business, a day job, three kids with all their activities... Notion keeps it all straight for me.
I use Structured. After going through literally every other app it’s the only one that stayed. It checked off all the boxes for me: 1. I don’t have to look for it/have it on hand. It’s always in front of me when I open my phone/computer. 2. It’s actually simple and looks nice.
Used to use Finch but switched to regular notes and habitual to-do list checking - habit itself was formed from using Finch so highly recommended to anyone trying to get any form of schedule/habits
I mean, SAME but I did find one where you basically have a neopet you take care of and when you complete tasks you get points to buy your bird clothes and decorations. Also your pet can earn micropets.
It has worked better for me than anything else I've tried!! It's called Finch and it's free
I do it but the wrong way - I put the things I already do as tasks to check off for the dopamine and when I try to add some habit I’m trying to start I just end up skipping that task every day
I tried it for a while until I eventually got a little too motivated by the bird and ended up cheating the system to unlock the rewards... I think I'm beyond saving at this point
Same. I need a program that both gives me room to complete a task without constant nagging and alarms, and yet I do need something to keep me on task worth gentle nudges. Like, "hey you said you wanted to finish that this week, have you made plans to do that, or is this going to turn into next week?
They need to implement an electrical shock treatment every time you fail to complete a task. Or some kind of Pavlovian conditioning to get your work done? But, to really make it effective, make it random. Will you get shocked? Maybe. The worry will nag you until you actually get the work done.
I'm still with Todoist. I've tried others over the years, like Asana and Microsoft To-Do, but I find myself going back to Todoist because their parser is great. With recent updates that integrate with the calendar, it makes time-blocking much easier too.
Too accurate! I dearly miss an app called 30/30 developed by Binary Hammer. Apple bought it up and took it down like 10 years ago. Still waiting for the replacer. No app has ever gotten close to helping me as much.
I’ve tried nearly everything out there but always default back to Apple Reminders + Google Calendar + Evernote. If I wasn’t an iPhone user I’d just simplify and go Google for everything and just use Tasks and Keep. First party software has nice hooks for sharing on both iOS/Android
All of my software is productivity software. The operating systems, the programming languages, the artificial intelligence, various forms of editing software, and so on.
I’ve been ISO the perfect one for years. I’ve tried so many. I finally created a prototype in excel so I could control the search, filtering and view I wanted to see. It works ok.
Same! I finally just started using excel. It does everything I need and I can drop links to file(s) I need to complete a given task. Sort by start date for the item and I'm good.
using productivity software for tasks is like keeping an unused calendar; it might look organized but doesn't get things done. sometimes a simple sticky note can remind you better to take out the trash than a digital tool ever could. keep it simple.
I made my own private discord server to send messages to myself cos at least I might check it sometimes cos I check discord every day, unlike productivity apps.
I've heard Tasks for a while now I'll give it a go. Recently I've had coworkers rave about MS notebook. I was mind blown how good it was once you got going. It's helped my manic filing ways of a bad developer
Death Reminder App. The other day it asked what I would do differently if I knew today was my last day. "sure as hell not clean the house," I said and didn't.
If someone else hadn’t mentioned it, I would have. Also using SyncThing to keep it synced between a few devices.
I use Obsidian overwhelmingly for work. Not just To Do items, but a running log of daily highlights. Link to details on other pages, or theme-similar info. 1/2
Daily log’s title is simply today’s date in ISO 8601 format. Further down the page, a live link (in “![[1-1 notes week ending YYYY-MM-DD]” format) to my weekly goals and retrospective.
I still need to think about automating a sync to somewhere offsite (and reasonably secure). 2/2
The only thing that works reliably for me is changing my smart lights to a different color at scheduled times as a visual whole room reminder. My lights turn green on Thursday night as a reminder to take out the trash and I don't switch them back until the trash is on the curb.
Of course this only works if you remember what each color is for. I do also have Alexa announce throughout the house that I need to take out the trash at the same time as the light changing colors.
Personal - Apple notes and Apple reminders.
Work - Asana
Dabbled with MS One Note, Things 3, ToDoist and MS to do.
In the end the simplicity of notes and reminders integrated into Apple (Siri voice etc) is the only thing I’ve managed to make work consistently for me.
Finch actually gets me to take my pills daily among a lot of other things. I still think it's stupid, but it's effective. Downloaded it during a period of desperation for change.
Google Tasks, ColorNote for Android, Notability on iPad, the Future ADHD planner/calendar within Notability, the empty husk of my abandoned Trello board.
Can report varying levels of success and high levels of forgetting them all and writing post its everywhere.
Obsidian for personal note taking. ClickUp for the small at work team! I like that they have a “free forever” plan that can accommodate my entire team (most allow just you and one other person before charging a fee). The paywall limitations are easy to work around.
Someone replied to this asking what is white tea but I cant see their post anymore. I can’t even remember why I wanted to buy it and according to Wikipedia “there is no generally accepted definition of white tea and very little international agreement on how it can be defined” so 🤷♀️
Generally I have understood and been told that white tea is a very young “juvenile” green tea leaf picked at a time when the plan is still primarily sending the leaf sugars for its growth and maturation rather than the mature leaf sending nutrients to the whole plant. This gives a mild sweeter taste
That makes sense. I think I had watched a video or read an article about the different types of tea and wanted to try white tea because of something I’d learned. Flavor? Caffeine content? Lower acidity? A potential health benefit?
I don’t k ow much about the actual chemistry of the tea (acidity, caffeine content though I feel safe saying that is lower) or health benefits, but flavor is great. If you haven’t yet I do recommend you try it.
I leave post it notes in really inconvenient places (on my monitor, on the door knob, stuck to the coffee machine) bc I have the object permanence of a toddler and if it's not in my way it doesn't exist.
I use Notepad++ for taking notes. And usually just dropping bits of text in. Fun fact, Notepad and N++ both use ASCII and can easily remove pesky formatting. So I'll often paste to N++, then copy, then paste to destination. It's way more useful way more than I ever realized it would be.
Using Msty, you can feed your text files from Notepad++ directly into there to be embedded, and the encoding can be used by the AI to ask it questions about your own 'memory'. It might be helpful to use such a combination of this. It is nice being able to ask an AI system about your own memories.
Waiting for the day that one of these apps can hack my ADHD brain and work as intended (for free). I need an AI to shift through my notifications and send me the ones I *need* to see. Like, "did you do dishes today? Make sure you unload the dishwasher before opening your mobile game!"
Have you tried Finch? It's a cute game where you dress up your bird and decorate its room and you're rewarded with gems with each task you tick off to buy more from the shop. If you like that sort of thing!
Ah, I kind of have a special interest in customisation and dress up games, so I think that's where I get my motivation. Though I'm not always on top of my tasks, it's a good reminder because I'm always waiting for the stuff I want in the shop. 😅
My husband (who won't go on a family weekender because that's "chore day") just asked me two days ago if he could just delete some of the tasks on our shared calendar because "they aren't getting done." Sometimes, I do wonder... but I'm sure the answer is in the middle.
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I'm no quitter! Just a serial procrastinator.
You should probably take out the trash though. Unless it's grown an ecosystem. Then it becomes a pet. So, don't forget to feed it
What we need is robot butlers.
And how do you remember to use whatever you use to remember to use the reminder?
And how do you remember to use whatever you use to remember to use whatever you use to remember to use the reminder?
It's all reminders, all the way down.
✅ list, reminders and calendar views (try to) keep me on track with client work
🌨️ sync lets my wife & I share grocery lists, notes, etc. across the comp, kitchen iPad & our phones
Each have a free profile, but we keep it simple so don't need to pay for AI, DBs, etc.
Also: Obsidian.
I tag important things red, and then shade them down as they become less important
If it's on my phone, it doesn't exist. Kinda like vegetables in my crisper drawer.
shouldn't doge cut all those subsidies musk gets?
Musk's companies had received an estimated $4.9 billion in government tax payer paid support by 2015, and gotten more.
He's against subsidies yet he continues to accept them.
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-subsidies-tesla-billions-spacex-solarcity-2021-12
Then comes the fun part of deciphering the inscrutable abbreviations I used instead of typing the actual words
Highly recommend checking it out. Heard it’s also popular amongst ADHD folks.
It has worked better for me than anything else I've tried!! It's called Finch and it's free
obsidian for note taking, and detail
Todoist for the task list
Llamalife for scheduling it
i have so many unchecked tasks
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.habitnow
Google Keep sometimes for a quick list.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/death-reminder-app/id6608959871
I use Obsidian overwhelmingly for work. Not just To Do items, but a running log of daily highlights. Link to details on other pages, or theme-similar info. 1/2
I still need to think about automating a sync to somewhere offsite (and reasonably secure). 2/2
Home To Do List: last update was mid July.
Work - Asana
Dabbled with MS One Note, Things 3, ToDoist and MS to do.
In the end the simplicity of notes and reminders integrated into Apple (Siri voice etc) is the only thing I’ve managed to make work consistently for me.
Can report varying levels of success and high levels of forgetting them all and writing post its everywhere.
I have not journaled in 2 years
And it ended up working well for notes but not so much for tasks... So I am currently working on a new app
https://msty.app/