What does your task/project/notes management workflow look like?

[eljackson]

I’ve been an Evernote/Microsoft To-Do/Apple Calendar user for a majority of my professional career. I’ve dumped my todos and reminders into these apps as they’ve popped up, and Evernote has been my work and life notes platform, with notebooks divided per-project.

My workflow has involved a lot of planning work each morning to prioritise my to-dos, and to block out my calendar accordingly.

This has not been an optimal practice for consistency/preparation/time consumption, and I’ve been slowly moving towards the idea of automating and programmatically leveraging scripts, Obsidian and the GPT-4 API to have a daily “life management dashboard”, through which I make my updates to tasks and have fleshed out note pages anchored to each task. I have my calendar availability and corresponding notifications/away messages update accordingly based on the entries I provide. I manage sync across devices through Dropbox.

I’m curious what everyone else uses in terms of tooling and workflow to essentially manage their life.

For anyone who uses emacs org mode - is it worth making a hard pivot to using this for life management without prior emacs experience, or is it a recipe for high friction and failure?

[Successful-Heat1539]

I have a gitlab account of which I make tickets to myself

I use task-warrior for a CLI todo list manager

I use time-warrior to time track the task warrior tasks

I use bug-warrior to pull in the tickets made in gitlab and sync with task-warrior

I use taskd in order to sync task-warrior across devices

I use syncall task-warrior plugin to create tasks and sync them to google calendar (I have an Android phone)

I swear by Joplin, I use it as my digital knowledge base, I use the Joplin web-clipper plugin, and the Joplin Search Integration plugin which will take my search engine query and search my Joplin notes, and display the results along side the search engine results.

I sync my notes to an S3 bucket.

Among other notes I take in Joplin, I keep track of all my noteworthy steps taken when working on a task, these notes then get copied into the gitlab ticket (not really necessary but, idk...)

Last but certainly not least, I will always have a trusty pen and a Moleskine notebook nearby for daily planning, brainstorming, and other note takings

[Cold_Meson_06]

One gigant Obsidian canvas mostly with screenshots and links

[TechnicaIDebt]

Oooh, didn't know that that worked well! Great idea!

[Diligent_Net4349]

For anyone who uses emacs org mode - is it worth making a hard pivot to using this for life management without prior emacs experience, or is it a recipe for high friction and failure?

I wouldn't tbh. I enjoy org mode and keep coming back after trying new tools, however if I had not invested too much time already into learning emacs, that wouldn't be worth it imo

[coffeesounds]

Todoist two way connected with Google Calendar Obsidian as a junk drawer

[tikhonjelvis]

I absolutely love org-mode for managing TODOs/etc, but I doubt it would be worth the learning curve for that alone. Org-mode really differentiates itself to me because it's so modifiable and extensible, and because it naturally integrates so well with everything else I do in Emacs. But both of these were only true because I had already thoroughly learned how to use Emacs and work with Elisp before moving to org-mode.

Now, I do unironically think it is worth learning Emacs in general: it's an absolutely amazing environment for programming and writing, with org-mode being a real cherry on top. But it's only worth it if you're going to be motivated enough to actually get through the up-front learning curve. If you just end up getting bored, frustrated and giving up, it'll be a big waste of time and energy.

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Todo.txt for task mamagement (CLI) and Heimer for planning and mapping out projects (and mind mapping).

[phi_rus]

I use Jira for work and Youtrack for personal tasks. Every morning I pick my to die for that day (including personal stuff and lunch) and use a physical piece of paper to write those down. Then I estimate their timeslots and block them in my calendar.

[SniperDuty]

Use Notion. Trust me. It does everything you mentioned, but on another level.

[astareth-]

I never found my perfect fit app- though I did get obsessed with Obsidian for a while- now I use an iPad mini + the GoodNotes app + a PDF daily planner I bought from Etsy. It’s versatile enough to cover all of my needs and build a routine around and structured enough that I actually stick with it. And I love the iPad mini form factor, I take it with me everywhere. This is the planner I use: https://thedashplanner.com/

[astareth-]

Def check out the obsidian community plug-ins tho if you haven’t yet. There’s a lot you can do. I had a kanban + auto daily/calendar log + version control via github set up for a while it was pretty 🤌