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While technically awesome I've tried using it several times but always end up dropping it. I find it difficult to maintain and over time it's left to rot until
by lawn 9y ago
While technically awesome I've tried using it several times but always end up dropping it. I find it difficult to maintain and over time it's left to rot until I finally give up on it.
For me I don't actually need the complexity. A simple text based todo list would basically do the same job. The main issue is actually maintaining it.
This is why I like habitica more: https://habitica.com/ https://habitica.com/
It's basically a gamified todo list which is perfect for me.
It's also awesome with helping establish new habits. The incentive of not wanting to break a streak is surprisingly strong. Nothing else has been remotely as successful.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 9y agoI tried it yesterday while looking for an app that would track "on a scale of 1-5 how well did I do X today". I settled on KeepTrack, but it doesn't have habitica's style. Maybe habitica encourages taking the habit seriously without taking myself too seriously.
- schrodinger 9y agoI like https://www.askmeevery.com/ https://www.askmeevery.com/. It just sends you an email and you reply. And if the reply is numerical, it'll generate a plot and statistics for you.
- tjr225 9y agoI find a physical notepad and a pen to be perfect for prioritizing and recording to-dos. Not sure why it needs to be "optimized" any further.
- vinceguidry 9y agoYou have to carry it around if you want your task list to be anywhere but in just one spot.
- zwkrt 9y agofrom my perspective, as soon as my todo list is digitized it is hidden from me. And as soon as it is hidden I forget to maintain it.
- tjr225 9y agoI agree, and the act of carrying a notepad around is not usually an issue for me anyway. I keep my work checklist at work and bring it home on days when I work remotely. I also keep checklists at home for non work stuff. Shopping lists are usually torn out of home checklists, brought with me, and then disposed of. There's also something really gratifying about physically checking stuff off of a list.
- sizzle 9y agoThe truism "out of sight out of mind"
- TeMPOraL 9y agoIt's surprisingly true. To the point I noticed that in times of stress, I would simply not look at whatever productivity tool I've been using. I found myself no longer invoke org agendas. No longer opening the paper notebook with tasks. Hell, I found my eyes glazing over the whiteboard with a list of tasks I put there the previous night. Semi-conscious avoidance is a terrifying thing.
- Fnoord 9y agoThat's an underlying issue (PEBCAK) which can be mitigated with mindfulness. The same could happen with an abundance of p&p notes. Someone who claims it doesn't happen w/their p&p notes, why would it happen with digital ones? Because the storage is easier and accessible (cloud in on your mobile in your pocket)? But an agenda full with notes isn't hard to carry around. My mother has been doing that for ages. She writes her passwords in her agenda, for example, and she still can't find them because its not well-logically mindfully structured. That wouldn't be solved by digitisation. Its PEBCAK all over.
- jecxjo 9y agoA lot of the optimizations I found (in taskwarrior) was allowing the app to figure out what I needed to do next. Due dates and expected duration and priority...all done programmatically. I really only needed that for work, as my personal life is much easier managed with pencil and paper.
- JohnKacz 9y agoAgreed. I thought it would not be the case but I’ve been bullet journaling for about 6 months and it’s been revolutionary.
- geoelectric 9y agoOn Mac, NotePlan does a decent job of distilling out the most important bits of bullet journaling--searchable markdown-style tasks and notes arranged on a calendar, with a bit of sugar to allow moving tasks from one day to another. It's very lightweight but has replaced my homegrown rapid-logging.
- tjr225 9y agoIt's a habit I picked up very early on when I was doing IT internships in college and it's so effective I can't see myself ever making checklists any other way.
- softawre 9y agoA physical notepad is pretty easy to forget or lose.
- avip 9y agoMake it task #1 not to lose it.
- darrenf 9y agoIs it? I mean, I guess perhaps so - but I find a physical artifact far easier to remember than "must open app X/Y/Z" on all my devices. Like my glasses or wallet or keys or phone, it has a literal presence. In 12 years of carrying a notepad and pen around, all over the world, I've literally never forgotten it once.
- tajen 9y agoFor todos, I love flightstrip racks. Yes, it’s ATC gear, but man it’s so satisfying to mark a task done by moving a series of plastic tokens. https://www.google.fr/search?tbm=isch&q=flightstrip+rack https://www.google.fr/search?tbm=isch&q=flightstrip+rack
- evolve2k 9y agoWow I didn't expect this link to be to a physical product. I'm very curious, please tell me more and how to get into this approach/what it's best for.
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- toyg 9y agoI used habitica for about a year and loved it. However, at some point my character was maxed-out and there was no incentive to continue (quest-events were a bit lame). I tried starting from scratch with a new character and quickly got bored. Maybe I should try it again, if they have improved it.
- lawn 9y agoThis happened to me as well. I just recently started again, for my 3rd time? Unfortunately I think the key is to find a good active party to keep you busy. So far I haven't really found one unfortunately.
- Bartweiss 9y agoHabitica is an interesting suggestion, thanks. I've had good luck with "todo list" and the "X effect" thing (basically just streaks - X out a calendar day for each time you do a daily task". Everything else, without exception, has been enough work to feel like a secondary task which I then quit doing. This might be a tool light enough to digitize those benefits without being a burden.
- agumonkey 9y agothat might work for me, I have a good gamified response usually.
- rconti 9y agoYup. I'm great at putting items on RememberTheMilk or Outlook or Google Calendar or Google Tasks or iCloud Notes or a whiteboard, but REALLY BAD at using the same system consistently, let alone actually checking the list ("hey, I'm bored, what should I do now?")
- kchr 9y agoPersonally, I have a reminder on my phone set every morning that tells me to review the list. Before I did this, I always had this gut feeling that I had forgot something even though I was very strict about always adding a task for everything.
- ErrantX 9y ago99.999999% of the purpose of any todo list process (app or otherwise) is a prompt for your memory (whether its scheduled or not). Scheduling and maintaining is a discipline that doesnt always come naturally. And is largely redundant.
- jdtang13 9y agoI hate this app. It's extremely unresponsive, doesn't know how to dismiss notifications properly, and is laggy on mobile. Some pages that are accessible from the web view don't work at all on the iOS version. And I'm 99% sure that the damage-calculation hits aren't being calculated properly. Yes, I know it's open source. I still dislike these aforementioned aspects of it, though.
- chrisamiller 9y agoYeah the desktop web version is a massively better experience (though not stellar either, tbh). It says something that it's still a good tool despite those shortcomings
- lawn 9y agoThe desktop web version is indeed far superior. The Android version works okay but it's also laggy and some notifications are missing.