[HN Gopher] The harmful assumptions we make about tasks
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The harmful assumptions we make about tasks
Author : croshan
Score : 44 points
Date : 2021-01-20 18:30 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| BirdieNZ wrote:
| I've been using Linear (https://linear.app) a little recently (no
| affiliation), and it has settings to automatically close and/or
| archive issues that haven't been completed in the configured time
| period. It seems it would help with the neverending backlog.
| denhaus wrote:
| Not sure this applies but I'll just plug my super early stage CLI
| task manager (github.com/ardunn/dex). It's FOSS, kind of like
| taskwarrior but it tells you how to prioritize your tasks. It
| fills in the "personal management" space for me quite well, but
| doesn't integrate with any online services like Amna does.
| dinkleberg wrote:
| Maybe I'm prematurely becoming a pedantic old man, but "harmful"?
| Come on!
|
| Smoking is harmful. Having permanent tasks may be fatiguing, but
| if that constitutes being harmful it would seem life has become
| too good (which is surprising given the current harmful
| pandemic!)
| antonvs wrote:
| "Harmful" is virtually a term of art in software development,
| ever since Dijkstra's 1968 article, "Goto Statement Considered
| Harmful."
| LandR wrote:
| Harmful now just means a millenial feels ever so slightly
| uncomfortable.
| TameAntelope wrote:
| I use Post-it notes for the "personal day-level" tasks, littered
| around my desk. The idea being that the task is now literally
| cluttering up my desk, which triggers a cleanliness anxiety to
| help motivate the completion of the task.
|
| If I fucked up and the task is important or I do want to track it
| over a longer period, I'll either copy it into Notion, or stick
| it into my notebook directly, where it lives forever.
| croshan wrote:
| That's a great approach! It reminds me of a similar approach I
| did when I still commuted to work: putting the sticky notes
| directly on the laptop.
|
| At the end of the day, I'd put the laptop in my backpack, and
| the sticky notes would get crumpled, so I would have to write
| new ones for the following day. It didn't work as well, though,
| because I'd occasionally lose sticky notes, and forget what I
| did yesterday.
| telotortium wrote:
| This is an interesting idea. I use Org-mode, so I'm thinking
| about doing this: I have a set of searches I run every week or so
| to find tasks or projects to archive (which places them in a
| separate file that I can still search, but is not in my face in
| my main TODO files):
| https://github.com/telotortium/doom.d/blob/ceb88ea05a2c8a5d5....
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| Right now I just archive tasks and projects that have been
| completed or cancelled, but I'm thinking about archiving all
| tasks and projects I haven't worked on for at least a quarter.
| That way I can essentially forget about them but still be able to
| locate them if I really need them.
| ArcMex wrote:
| At work, I use Planner x To-Do in Teams to keep organized. I have
| buckets labeled Today, This Week, This Month and This Quarter.
| Everyday, I slide tasks as required. I can appreciate the point
| on permanent tasks and fatigue but they have a place in my
| workflow. I would rather slide something over to This Week or
| This Month if I don't need to do it Today as opposed to checking
| it and recreating it.
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