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It depends how complex you want to get. First, you have tasks and there a few different types, time-bound (do by friday) and ongoing (do every friday), then you

It depends how complex you want to get. First, you have tasks and there a few different types, time-bound (do by friday) and ongoing (do every friday), then your tasks have to prioritized, then they have tobe linked to related tasks, often you need to manage dependencies, which can basically be a directed acyclical graph (or worse, a directed cyclical graph). Of course you often also want to be able to get various retrospective views on what tasks have or have not been completed. A sufficiently complex to do list is more like jira than like a text file.

fermienrico 6y ago
I wonder if the person you're replying to is correct in but in a different way. Since text files and excel sheets are "outdated", we don't stack them up against bloated webapp that Asana is. What if, really, excel sheet can just work? Its like we get so wound up in existing status-quo, we get narrow vision and forget the larger domain space for solving problems. It's like the guy that ran a bunch of ETL jobs on a Macbook Air faster than a Hadoop cluster. KISS is beautiful sometimes and eye-opening. When someone brings up a ridiculous "outdated" idea, I try to keep an open mind. May be... just maybe we're wrong about all this?
- enriquto 6y ago
  I don't see it as "outdated", but mostly as avoiding unnecessary overkill. But then again, my to-do lists rarely have more than 5 or 6 items, and I don't manage other people, so I'm certainly not the public for such apps. For my use case, text files are perfectly appropriate and I would feel ridiculous using anything else. Like using a tractor to work on my tiny lawn.
- threeseed 6y ago
  How do you use a single Excel sheet across hundreds to tens of thousands of people ? That's what apps like Flow, Asana, Jira etc are designed for. Not one or two people.
  - daniellarusso 6y ago
    Office 365? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/collaborate-on-excel-workbooks-at-the-same-time-with-co-authoring-7152aa8b-b791-414c-a3bb-3024e46fb104 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/collaborate-on-ex...

fermienrico 6y ago

I wonder if the person you're replying to is correct in but in a different way. Since text files and excel sheets are "outdated", we don't stack them up against bloated webapp that Asana is. What if, really, excel sheet can just work? Its like we get so wound up in existing status-quo, we get narrow vision and forget the larger domain space for solving problems. It's like the guy that ran a bunch of ETL jobs on a Macbook Air faster than a Hadoop cluster. KISS is beautiful sometimes and eye-opening. When someone brings up a ridiculous "outdated" idea, I try to keep an open mind. May be... just maybe we're wrong about all this?

enriquto 6y ago
I don't see it as "outdated", but mostly as avoiding unnecessary overkill. But then again, my to-do lists rarely have more than 5 or 6 items, and I don't manage other people, so I'm certainly not the public for such apps. For my use case, text files are perfectly appropriate and I would feel ridiculous using anything else. Like using a tractor to work on my tiny lawn.
threeseed 6y ago
How do you use a single Excel sheet across hundreds to tens of thousands of people ? That's what apps like Flow, Asana, Jira etc are designed for. Not one or two people.
- daniellarusso 6y ago
  Office 365? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/collaborate-on-excel-workbooks-at-the-same-time-with-co-authoring-7152aa8b-b791-414c-a3bb-3024e46fb104 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/collaborate-on-ex...