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This is why I make lists. Of everything. Checklists for technical processes (work and personal). Checklists for travel. Little "how to" docs on pretty much
by e40 1y ago
This is why I make lists. Of everything. Checklists for technical processes (work and personal). Checklists for travel. Little "how to" docs on pretty much everything I do that I'm sure I won't remember past a week.
It completely removes the stress of doing things repeatedly. I recently had to do something I hadn't done in 2 years. Yep, the checklist/doc on it was 95% correct, but it was no problem fixing the 5%.
- mettamage 1y agoIn like Apple Notes or what do you store the checklists in?
- germandiago 1y agoDepending on the task the most effective way I found sometimes is a hand-written paper stuck on a wall. Why so? It is always in front of you, it reminds you what you need to do and does not get out of sight, which helps keep the focus. When you bury it or set it somewhere else it is very easy to bury it.
- e4325f 1y agoI use Apple Reminders
- ajuc 1y agoTxt files are hard to beat
- danielpoer1098 1y ago[dead]
- computerdork 1y agoI like the digital note-taking tools, Evernote and Onenote - actually, used to use Evernote, but it started slowing down after my notebooks became too large, so switched to Onenote. And eventhough Onenote is MS product and Evernote was the original that OneNote copied off of, OneNote is a better engineered piece of software (I have tons of notes and a few of them very large documents), and Onenote rarely has problems.
- mimischi 1y agoI don’t think there’s a correct answer here. Whatever floats your boat. Do you want to scribble things by hand into a physical notebook? Great! Want to use Notepad on Windows for .txt? Or create a .docx using Word? Don’t follow trends and seek the “next best way to hack your productivity”. Most of those things are snake oil and a waste of time. Just use whatever you have available and build a process yourself. That’s what most people have done that are successful in applying this. They just use the tool they are comfortable with, and don’t over engineer for the sake of it
- e40 1y agoSwitched to Apple Notes recently. Used to use org mode, but the apps on iOS ... just bad. But, I use different things for different situations. For work, I use text files in a "howto/" subdirectory of a main repo.
- germandiago 1y agoI am kind of a bit lazy person at times. But when I need to absolutely not to forget anything that can become messy, a checklist is difficult to beat and as you say, it removes all the stress: you elaborate it and when the time comes, keep applying it or applying all at once. It works very well for me.
- schrectacular 1y agoTemporal cognitive load reduction A.K.A. "thanks, past self!"
- computerdork 1y agoYeah, my OneNote notebook is huge now, littered with checklists, processes, and just notes on different subjects. It's like a secondary memory for me at this point, like longterm storage for rarely used but important info.
- Xmd5a 1y agoThe right way to do it is to have one person (preferably you) go over the checklist, while someone else (typically a son) do the actual thing.
- rossant 1y agoSame. Like what to take in my luggage. Grocery list. To do list. And everything else. I use Dynalist. Great tool. My secret super power, by those who also made Obsidian.
- ivansavz 1y ago+1 for lists. I used to procrastinate and suffer every year to do my taxes. Always submit last minute (stress) or late (stress + penalties), but ever since I created a checklist for all the steps (data extractions, data transform in Excel, data loading into tax software, etc.) the tax season is no longer this bad. It still takes me a day, but no stress... just grind though the checkboxes!