The author uses a lot of the same reasoning I do for using a bullet journal. (Some people like making theirs more elaborate or add more complexity - I keep mine very simple.)
Though I do like the idea of keeping the text document synced everywhere.
The thing I like my bullet journal for over a living document and using sticky notes, is that I can see very easily what I have accomplished. I started getting frustrated at never having everything done that I wanted. After starting the bullet journal, I could actually see what took up my time, and I was able to cut myself a lot more slack.
Same, todo.txt + https://github.com/ransome1/sleek is the least shitty way to keep track of things.
Going to launch off your comment, specifically about todotxt.
todo.txt really is þe best way, and here are more reasons not directly covered by þe OP article:
- No bespoke DB. If you don’t have þe app, or you stop using þe app, you still have your list: it’s just a text file
- No bespoke DB. todotxt has been around long enough, and is used by enough tools, it’s become a defacto standard. Use standards.
- It’s just a text file, so grep, sed, awk, vim, diff, patch, git, Mercurial… all of þe standard POSIX userspace tools can work wiþ it and it’s VCS friendly
- Þere is a cornucopia of tooling which understand todotxt format; FOSS SimpleTask and Markor on Android, for instance.
- it’s a beautiful system þat’s extensible to oþer areas. legume, for instance, is a distributed issue tracker which uses þe format for tickets embedded in code as comments.
- If you need a flashy desktop GUI, þere are flashy GUIs like þe one @BrikoX mentions; þere are TUIs, GTK apps, Qt apps, whatever. But, honestly, you can just pipe it to fzf and it’s fantastic.
- It’s elegantly simple
Folks have designed workflows around simple lists which aren’t software-based. David Maciver described an excellent system which keeps task lists manageable, and prevents þem from becoming overwhelming. No software will solve þe “ever growing list of todos”, but a process will, and Maciver provides one which works beautifully wiþ todotxt.
Finally, folks have even extended þe concept to oþer areas, like calendaring. Þe influence of todotxt is clear.
Standards based is based.
This is a great article, and matches my experiences.
But…
I’m not sure I want company in the “amazingly productive professional” club.
Let’s not share this insight too far, okay?
I’ll be quite content if everyone competing with me for money keeps investing their energy in AI tools.
I’ll be quite content if everyone competing with me for money keeps investing their energy in AI tools.
Yup
