Two things, plus their combination: 1. Productivity system. I’m trying out different methods of todo lists. When I start a new method I think I’ve finally foun

Two things, plus their combination: 1. Productivity system. I’m trying out different methods of todo lists. When I start a new method I think I’ve finally found the right one, but I end up not sticking with it and starting over with a new approach after a while. My current system is something I started yesterday after coalescing a few different ideas from the last week or so. I have a list of categories in a text file (on my phone) ordered by priority such that at any time I can start at the top of the list and think if there’s anything I should do in that category. If so, I work on that. The order is determined by what would be best to do in SUPPORT of things further down the list. That way you can stay on top of things without waiting until they are urgent, and it seems to align my actions with my overall goals better. 2. Hardware/software. I’ve noticed that software at every layer of the stack is written and changed/updated based on the desires of the creator of that software, not you. This might sound crazy, but if you really want to have control of your software you should write it yourself. Ever since I ran across Forth (jonesforth in particular) and realized you could create your entire software environment (drivers, OS, editor/compiler/debugger, application) from scratch because lets you start with nothing and quickly move up the layers of abstraction focusing only on what us needed for your particular application. (See also: http://collapseos.org/forth.html http://collapseos.org/forth.html and https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesforth.S https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort... ) The combination of 1+2 would be building a device with a hardware keyboard, simple display, and a microcontroller where I could have a todo list. (I could potentially just use an old PC with a BIOS as well to start with.) I could have it let me have reminders that I could snooze for a desired amount of time for instance, or have recur at specific times until dismissed (daily checklists). If I didn’t want the screen to go into sleep mode, or the OS to force me to update, reboot, or do anything at all that I didn’t want it to (like have unwanted notifications or ads or algorithmically driven distractions or security holes from the network/Internet), it wouldn’t. It would have zero dependencies.