You need to start where you are, and realize that just doing more things isn't going to fix any holes in your life. If you have a ton of things to do and you ar

You need to start where you are, and realize that just doing more things isn't going to fix any holes in your life. If you have a ton of things to do and you are having trouble keeping track of them, then you might have use for a tool. Separate your work and your life and your ambitions. I'm lucky enough that I can track my work stuff in my head. If it ever gets to where it's too hectic, I escalate to a written task list. My home life is similar. All of my life context is kept physically. I can see that the dishes aren't done. I can see when I need to take out the trash. My ambitions, on the other hand, well, I've spent man-years of effort on hacking away at solutions to manifest them faster. I don't consider the time I've spent writing scripts and stuff wasted because I love doing this stuff, it's what I naturally start doing once everything else is sorted. I don't take a 'ship it' strategy to them because to me the point is enjoying the journey, not to get to the end as fast as I can. I don't have to build a colocated kubernetes cluster in order to host a blog, but I want to. It appeals to my sensibilities to not pay hundreds of dollars for compute when I have a perfectly good desktop machine with lots of its own compute. I've spent more time on keyboard macros than I'll ever save. But the feeling of power I get from having my world accessible with just a few keystrokes is great. And learning about how evdev and xbindkeys and the like work is interesting as well. The hole isn't filled when I get to the end. The end is when the hole stops being filled. This is what organization will do to you if you're not careful.