[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How do you keep track of your to-dos? longer...
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Ask HN: How do you keep track of your to-dos? longer-term projects?
In 2022, what tools are you using to keep track of your to-dos?
What tools are you using to keep track of progress on longer-term
projects?
Author : uger
Score : 20 points
Date : 2022-04-24 17:19 UTC (5 hours ago)
| throwaway81523 wrote:
| Text file or org mode. For something really big I guess I'd
| consider an issue tracker, but I've never had to do that for any
| personal project. I've been at companies obsessed with using
| technology for this and it's always been a waste of time,
| especially when they churn to a new system without fully
| migrating and deleting the old system. Even if they make the old
| system archived/read-only, you end up having to look into 5
| different systems to see what you are working on. I always tell
| myself that if I'm ever roped into a tech lead slot, I'm going to
| leave the choice of issue tracker up to the other devs, but will
| insist that there be only one system and that all the previous
| ones must be merged into it.
|
| Really, IME, the technology doesn't really matter. I've never
| seen a tracker that scales really well, and unless very large
| scale is required, afaict they are all about equal.
| blamestross wrote:
| Obsidian with the Todo plugin and tags.
|
| I am also a part of the cult slowly building a personal database
| in obsidian to use as postmortal-simulation training fodder
| later.
| ozzythecat wrote:
| I keep Excel spreadsheets with simple todo lists for things I
| need to do... for example, taxes, renewing a drivers license,
| purchases that are easy to forget, books I want to read, etc.
|
| It's sort of todo lists and one line notes, all saved into one
| folder.
|
| I've found for myself that I just need something very simple and
| easy to use. There are programs out there that let you use mark
| down, or they sync your todo lists or your notes. All this extra
| fancy stuff just adds complexity and for me, distracts me from
| the actual stuff I need to get done.
|
| Of course, this isn't a silver bullet for everyone.
| 7263255 wrote:
| At the moment, I use Todoist as a front end and have a bunch of
| automations that run via the API.
| SaulJLH wrote:
| Could you elaborate on this?
| shrimp_emoji wrote:
| A .txt file with a "char-checkable" list
| the-anarchist wrote:
| badinsie wrote:
| trello
| tlhunter wrote:
| Todoist for personal, shared Todoist with one other person,
| GitHub Project for technical team stuff.
| tobinharris wrote:
| I roughly follow Getting Things Done (GTD) and built a Flutter
| desktop app for managing the various lists in GTD (I hate
| flicking between note files).
|
| You can see it on this page. Note that I haven't decided if I'll
| launch the app yet, so there's not even a domain name.
| https://qzj2yr24qf8m.umso.co/
|
| GTD also recommends you keep a projects list to remind you of all
| the open projects you have.
| LinuxBender wrote:
| I write things down on a notebook. I received loads of notebooks
| from vendors with their logo on them. When I complete something I
| put a line through it. If something is important I write an
| asterisk next to it.
| DougMellon wrote:
| I have always struggled with maintaining lists and usually revert
| back to plain text documents with running bullets -- however,
| that doesn't scale well and I end up with text files lacking any
| order. I've since been using Obsidian[0] and, while my process is
| similar, I am able to create structure around the files and
| noticed significant improvement.
|
| Since starting a new job earlier this month, I simply maintained
| a notebook with tasks. Once those are complete, I cross them out
| and add them to my Goals / Brag sheet that I keep for personal
| reference. I'm now wondering why I didn't do this all along.
|
| [0] https://obsidian.md/
| smoldesu wrote:
| I also use Obsidian, with a slightly different workflow. I
| create 3 different types of lists: week lists, sprint lists and
| ticket lists.
|
| - Week lists are divided into days, with one sub-heading for
| each day, and a sub-sub-heading for a daily todo list and the
| day's events/meetings. Each one lets me take notes and prepare
| info for the day, with a general to-do list at the top of each
| day that organizes my general goals. It really helps structure
| everything for me in a meaningful way.
|
| - Sprint lists are fairly specific to agile work, but I use
| them to set goals for each sprint and keep a "birds-eye view"
| of my work, so to speak.
|
| - Ticket lists are specific to Jira tickets, and they're what I
| link to in the aforementioned two lists. I use these to store
| information that is specifically relevant to a task at hand. If
| the knowledge can be generalized, I'll usually try to make a
| page for it elsewhere in my notes and link to that instead.
|
| It's a bit of a mess, but it really helps organize things for
| me. Being able to anticipate, react and record like that is an
| essential tool to not driving myself crazy in the workplace.
| eimrine wrote:
| Not having any todos works best for me. Just wake up as early as
| possible and do as much as possible and that is it.
| moasda wrote:
| At work I use a personal kanban task organizer to prioritize my
| tasks. The tasks for today are also visible in Outlook. It is a
| desktop app that I wrote for my needs.
|
| https://gitlab.com/moasda/task-organizer
| CodeWriter23 wrote:
| Todos: pad kept near dominant hand. Blue pen to add, Red pen to
| cross out.
|
| Long Term: Markerboard in office
| hpen wrote:
| Notion
| tiddles wrote:
| For my long term side project I just dump ideas into a barely
| organised backlog.md [^1]. After finishing a feature or taking a
| few months away, I normally dive back in by browsing this and
| choosing the next milestone.
|
| It's worked well for a couple of years, and helps me keep the
| long term goals in mind.
|
| [^1] https://github.com/DomWilliams0/name-
| needed/blob/develop/.pl...
| dtx1 wrote:
| Joplin on my phone and linux pc's and a free nextcloud hoster for
| synching it with e2e encryption.
| dugdale wrote:
| A list. In my head most of the time. A wiseman once told me that
| if it's important you'll remember and if you don't, it will come
| back to you in one form or another. I try with software, but
| nothing has ever really worked. I work in a small team and we're
| trying Google Spaces now as it has tasks built in, but it needs
| just a little more ..
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