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Going back from ToDo-Lists in Apps to simple paper and tick mark them.

TheGrumpyBrit 7y ago
I've gone hybrid for todo lists. Handwritten in GoodNotes on iPad. Seems to give me the best of both worlds - better memory retention that comes from physically writing stuff down, but with search and copy/paste functionality.
rchaud 7y ago
I have tried and failed to follow the GTD philosophy many times. After a while, I too went with a simple checklist. I can indent that list with sub-tasks, but that's it. Mark as checked if it's completed. Leave as it is if it's not and come back to it the next day. Kinda refreshing.
- bkanber 7y ago
  Check out Bullet journaling. It's a simple checklist plus one or two other "tick types" that's quite helpful.
  - unhashable 7y ago
    GTD => BuJo convert here. I’m a believer. I started BuJo’ing 6 months ago and feel totally liberated. I haven’t skipped a day and life is. Way. Better.
  - wenc 7y ago
    I tried adopting the standard Bujo symbols, but they weren't intuitive to me. i.e. ⋅ = task, ⊙ = in-progress, × = completed. I replaced them with my own, which to me made more sense. ◯ = task, ◐ = in-progress, ● = completed.
    - jolmg 7y ago
      The ones I use are: [ ] - task [/] - in progress [x] - completed [-] - canceled [|] - moved to next day / another time This is all with pen and paper, of course, with the [ ] being boxes. Once something is marked in-progress, I can still mark it completed, canceled, or moved by just adding another line.
      - wenc 7y ago
        This makes much more sense. How do you move from in-progress to canceled or moved though? If you do a horizontal/vertical strikethrough, doesn't that create a new symbol which look like completed upon glancing? With the standard Bujo symbols, you can't really move from in-progress to completed without a making a completely new mark. Also, I need more visual differentiation than just tiny dots so I can scan a page of bullets quickly.
        jolmg 7y ago
        > doesn't that create a new symbol which look like completed upon glancing? Well, not if you make your diagonals hit the corners and your verticals/horizontals hit the sides/top/bottom. In ASCII, they look like they're contained inside, but I actually make the lines cross the box border. For multiple contiguous items that I'm moving, I may even just make a single line to cross multiple boxes. I'm trying to reduce over-committing, though.
bkanber 7y ago
Hear hear. I do bullet journaling with a pocket-sized softcover moleskin. The notebook lives in my back pocket and it's definitely way better than any app I've ever used.
- unhashable 7y ago
  +100 for https://bulletjournal.com/ https://bulletjournal.com/
downerending 7y ago
Likewise. If you want the "advanced" version, put each item on a tiny sticky and arrange the stickies in a file folder.

I've gone hybrid for todo lists. Handwritten in GoodNotes on iPad. Seems to give me the best of both worlds - better memory retention that comes from physically writing stuff down, but with search and copy/paste functionality.

rchaud 7y ago

I have tried and failed to follow the GTD philosophy many times. After a while, I too went with a simple checklist. I can indent that list with sub-tasks, but that's it. Mark as checked if it's completed. Leave as it is if it's not and come back to it the next day. Kinda refreshing.

bkanber 7y ago
Check out Bullet journaling. It's a simple checklist plus one or two other "tick types" that's quite helpful.
- unhashable 7y ago
  GTD => BuJo convert here. I’m a believer. I started BuJo’ing 6 months ago and feel totally liberated. I haven’t skipped a day and life is. Way. Better.
- wenc 7y ago
  I tried adopting the standard Bujo symbols, but they weren't intuitive to me. i.e. ⋅ = task, ⊙ = in-progress, × = completed. I replaced them with my own, which to me made more sense. ◯ = task, ◐ = in-progress, ● = completed.
  - jolmg 7y ago
    The ones I use are: [ ] - task [/] - in progress [x] - completed [-] - canceled [|] - moved to next day / another time This is all with pen and paper, of course, with the [ ] being boxes. Once something is marked in-progress, I can still mark it completed, canceled, or moved by just adding another line.
    - wenc 7y ago
      This makes much more sense. How do you move from in-progress to canceled or moved though? If you do a horizontal/vertical strikethrough, doesn't that create a new symbol which look like completed upon glancing? With the standard Bujo symbols, you can't really move from in-progress to completed without a making a completely new mark. Also, I need more visual differentiation than just tiny dots so I can scan a page of bullets quickly.
      - jolmg 7y ago
        > doesn't that create a new symbol which look like completed upon glancing? Well, not if you make your diagonals hit the corners and your verticals/horizontals hit the sides/top/bottom. In ASCII, they look like they're contained inside, but I actually make the lines cross the box border. For multiple contiguous items that I'm moving, I may even just make a single line to cross multiple boxes. I'm trying to reduce over-committing, though.

bkanber 7y ago

Hear hear. I do bullet journaling with a pocket-sized softcover moleskin. The notebook lives in my back pocket and it's definitely way better than any app I've ever used.

unhashable 7y ago
+100 for https://bulletjournal.com/ https://bulletjournal.com/

downerending 7y ago

Likewise. If you want the "advanced" version, put each item on a tiny sticky and arrange the stickies in a file folder.