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After years of frustration with task apps, I tried to migrate my system to pen and paper and... back to a task app in 2 days! The biggest pluses of an app (as o
by felipe 15y ago
After years of frustration with task apps, I tried to migrate my system to pen and paper and... back to a task app in 2 days! The biggest pluses of an app (as opposed to paper) are quick text search and copy & paste, especially for URLs. After this experience I realized how much I depend on URLs for my daily activities: For example, to reference GMail emails, follow-ups, search results, things to read, etc... Maybe pen & paper is perfectly fine for most professions, but for techies unfortunately we are stuck with (bad) task apps for now.
Side-note: I have used so many task apps that I am embarrassed to list them here, and right now I am settled with Toodledo for the main task db and Tomboy for daily tasks and general notes. I am not totally happy with it, but at least it does not get on my way. My "system" is a combination of GTD and Covey's 7-habits that I use for almost a decade.
- wladimir 15y agoThe ability to copy/paste from/to emails, source code, and documents does keep me using task apps instead of paper. Also, I find it very hard to keep large amounts of paper organized in a useful way over longer times, and you need to carry it around. When you keep it online, you can access it from everywhere. Search function is very useful and more efficient than rooting through stacks of old paper. If you have a lot of notes, you'll always lose exactly that sheet of paper that was most important. Good old paper does have some advantages, but it doesn't cut it for me anymore.