| Recently, I came to the need of using a Note taking app + reminder + tasks.
I've investigated multiple apps, but none of them does what I need entirely. Apple Notes: notes, no tasks or reminders Evernote: notes, no tasks or reminders (easy ones) OneNote: crashed 5 times before even using it Wunderlist: tasks + reminders, but the notes UI is poorly designed Notion: cool concept, way too complicated Todoist: tasks + reminders, no notes Today I found 1 app that integrates with slack and I can write something like: - /remind some task today at 5 - /remind some other task in 15 minutes
...but there's no easy way to get a big picture of what are the current tasks I'm a heavy keyboard user, any action that would require clicking or scrolling is a loss of time. Here comes my question: what do you use that proved to be useful? |
Apple Notes - it's on every device I use and online, so it has the lowest friction. I use Apple Notes for grocery lists (using checkboxes), semi-permanent notes, and sometimes as an inbox of things to process later.
Task Management:
Things (https://culturedcode.com) using the basic GTD framework. I add things to the Inbox through the day to get them out of my head. In the morning and when taking a break from work, I process the Inbox into projects/areas as well as defer them (give them a date to start/do them). Every Sunday I do a review/braindump of projects or anything still open.
By the way, you can use this GTD method with any tool. I know people who do it with Apple Reminders.
One extra thing I do at the beginning of each day is pick 3 tasks I absolutely need to do by the end of the day - a successful day is when I do at least those 3. I got this idea from Chris Bailey's book "The Productivity Project".
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I don't keep "permanent" notes (book notes, personal wiki, etc.). I've tried before and I never looked at them again nor did they help my memory.