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I keep finding that the more complicated the setup I use for productivity, the less I go back to it whenever there is a hiccup. Simple methods survive long ter
by roland35 5y ago
I keep finding that the more complicated the setup I use for productivity, the less I go back to it whenever there is a hiccup. Simple methods survive long term.
Currently my wife and I use a shared google doc, and while it is far from perfect, it ends up working well for us since it works on our phones and computers, is easy to bookmark, and the interface never changes.
- resonious 5y agoI feel the same way about my dev environment. I'm a Linux user with a propensity for customization, but my preferred bashrcs and vimrcs have converged on something small enough to write up from memory. It's a lot of fun to have a hugely customized ultra-productive setup, but as soon as you find yourself on somebody else's system, a server, a container, or whatever, it's not so fun anymore. The less setup you need in order to be comfortable, the easier it is to be comfortable!
- doubled112 5y agoI think I've fallen into this trap before, and ended up with a small set of features that degrade well if I don't have them. Something like fish shell will never work for me. Not every machine is mine. So I tried Zsh. It turns out that better tab completion, syntax highlighting and suggestions does speed me up, but I don't feel lost when the machine has a default bash install. The hours I've spent customizing just to decide it's too much and undoing half of it is baffling. At least I had fun doing it, or that's what I tell myself.
- SkyPuncher 5y agoI'll fallen back to a Todoist board (any Kanban board will work) with 4 columns. * Now * Today * Next Week * The future Anything more complex is a waste of time as it assumes I can predict how and why I need to work on something.