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  • I go around telling people my intentions, and then query them 100 times a day about what I should be doing at any given time. If they stop responding then I spam them with emails demanding updates, and if they block my emails then I go to their houses.

    I'm very productive.

  • My main requirement is that it has to be available on my heavily locked down work phone and work laptop as well as my home ones. If it isnt in my face whenever I look at a screen, it isnt going to work. So it ends up being Google tasks.

  • A Post-It and a pencil, usually.

    Not because "app bad" or "return to monke" or anything like that. Mostly because if I stow the note in a dedicated app, that somehow just makes me less inclined to write it down and read it later.

    A scrap of papersticking out like a sore thumb on my desk or burning a hole in my pocket? I'm going to be cognizant of that all day long. But an obscure text file chilling in a disused part of my phone, or a txt file lost in the shuffle of random shit on my PC? Outta sight outta mind.

    I also find all digital input schemes to be frustratingly less flexible than physical paper. Provided I have a writing utensil on hand that is functional (not always a given, granted) it is trivial to put anything I want on a note. Write anything I want. Draw diagrams. Underline or strike text. Write some things larger or heavier than others. All of these things are possible in note taking apps, but they come with the idiosyncracies of needing to know the selection techniques and menu options to activate them. In this way they're all death by a thousand tiny annoying cuts for me.

    I even had a smart phone with a built-in stylus for a good long while. It definitely extended the things you could do with ease, but it was a far cry from a pencil.

    The only thing a note taking app can do in my mind that paper can't is yell at you with a loud noise at a pre-programmed time. If I need one of those, I just set an alarm in my clock app.

  • Google Tasks. Does not have all the features of other apps but does everything I need and was preinstalled

  • Weird to not see (at the time I’m writing this) any mentions of “todoist” which people on forums have loved for ages. I’m not a fan at all so I’m glad to finally not see it as frequently. My preference for work, where I have multiple categories and statuses (including a “done and waiting for the other person to confirm” status) is Trello with some automations. For home, just simple reliable entry on phone and desktop, is Ticktick. I particularly love the natural date parsing built into Ticktick (can also be done in Trello with an automation), very useful for super fast task entry and due date/time scheduling.

  • I've been a user of the GTD method for many, many years, so any app I use needs to be GTD-specific.

    Currently, I'm using Nirvana - have been for about 6 years. I like it so much, I paid for the lifetime sub, so haven't really bothered to look elsewhere since.

  • All the apps... and none of them work for me.

    But one that is nice, powerful, and still free usable without working with a 'hello world build a todo application'-app and seems to work for people that actually use todo applications.

  • I'm currently using Google Keep for personal tasks and Microsoft To-do at work, but want to switch to something self hosted.

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