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I have a file called todo.txt, with the current tasks at the top, and everything else below that. It is in version control. As I finish stuff, I delete it out
by forgotmypw 7y ago
I have a file called todo.txt, with the current tasks at the top, and everything else below that. It is in version control.
As I finish stuff, I delete it out of the file.
I add new stuff towards the top if I want to do it soon, towards the bottom if I want to save it for later.
For things which are just ideas, I have a second file called brainstorm.txt.
- bilekas 7y agobased on your name, im guessing you have a `password.txt` also ?
- njsubedi 7y agoDo you judge people by looking at their usernames, or by checking whether they end their sentences with "also" also? ;)
- matfil 7y agoThat's almost word-for-word what I like. I'm actually pretty certain this approach, with the TODO file in VC, would work fine at least up until 4-6 developers, as long as everyone hits a basic level of competence -- but in practice, someone always suggests a more structured tool well before that point.
- Doctor_Fegg 7y agoSimilar to that, but I try to group the tasks into upcoming releases. It's quite an effective way of forcing myself to do the unglamorous fixes along with the whizzbang new features.
- etherio 7y agoLiterally exactly what I do. I also wake up at 3 am with an idea and put it as a reminder on my calendar.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- bcrosby95 7y agoThis is what I do too. I tried using things like Trello but found the friction to be too high. I use org mode instead of a regular .txt file though.
- Reedx 7y agoSame here, though I handle the ordering loosely. Basically bubble sorting the list frequently based largely on a combination of impact and what I feel like doing at the moment.
- z3t4 7y agoDoes anyone else have a problem that this file just keeps growing?
- graphpapa 7y agoYes
- DougWebb 7y agoMy problem is that I lose track of where all of my todo files are; I work on too many (client) projects to keep everything in a single file. Luckily, over time todos tend to become todon'ts, so losing track of the old ones isn't generally a problem.
- forgotmypw 7y agoIt does grow quite a bit. Sometimes I go through the whole file and take out things which I've finished. I haven't found this to be much of a problem.
- neltnerb 7y agoI'm old school, so I just constantly email myself replies to my past email with a reply to a past email with a past email with a todo list that I freshly created after finally crossing off the old ones. It helps me sleep to add stuff to my todo list so I can offload anxiety about remembering said thing. It's great, I stole it a bit from a Buddhist meditation practice, but found I didn't trust promises I made to myself that if something is important I'll remember it later. Too much important stuff is planning and I don't like needing to burden others with reminding me to do things.
- cacozen 7y agoI use a todo.diff - so the text editor color codes my lines started with `+` and `-`
- hu3 7y agoI'm stealing this.
- jedimastert 7y agoThat's such a hack, I love it.
- huydotnet 7y agowow. great trick!!
- winrid 7y agoNice!! There is a cool Todo plugin for Sublime that I used for like a year.
- hilti 7y agoLove it: simple and easy to maintain. Thank you for this great idea!
- john-radio 7y agoSo you add tasks starting with `-` and change them to `+` when they're "checked off"?
- jvanderbot 7y agoSimilarly, I use todo.md, and have VIM highlight "[ ]", "[x]", "[>]", "[v]", and "[-]" for bullet-journal-like TODO, DONE, Deferred, Dropped, and FAILED, respectively.
- rgrs 7y agowow. Thanks for the tip
- jvanderbot 7y ago
- EdSharkey 7y agoMine is called SCRATCHPAD.md. :D Writing down the brainstorm stuff is important to me because if I don't write it down, I am tempted to drop what I'm doing and work on my ideas or else lose them. If I went and implemented every random idea that popped into my head, I'd never get anything done as was the case for me in the past. I write these huge long essays to get my ideas and frame of mind fully described and that usually satisfies me to where I don't have to drop everything and implement the idea right there.
- zylepe 7y agoI’ve been doing the same thing (todo.txt) for a while, surprised to learn it’s not just me. I like separating out brainstorm.txt, that would help keep it focused.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]
- s3tz 7y agoI use a similar approach, but with a VSC extension. I use this one: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/vscode-todo-plus https://github.com/fabiospampinato/vscode-todo-plus, although I bet there are plenty others and for your editor of choice.
- DevX101 7y agoThis is awesome! Thanks.
- jvanderbot 7y agoI use todo.md, and have VIM highlight "[ ]", "[x]", "[>]", "[v]", and "[-]" for bullet-journal-like TODO, DONE, Deferred, Dropped, and FAILED, respectively.
- awayfromhomenow 7y agotodo.org Org-mode realllllly makes it better. I keep it open and have 'Pre-launch' and 'Post-launch' todo items, plus major design features have their own heading with steps broken out.