| i have pretty severe adhd which causes a somewhat difficult situation where i need to keep todo lists to remain on track for even basic stuff, and the system needs to be pretty foolproof because, you know, the adhd i dream of doing something really fancy, but i always come back to the same trio of tools: -every morning i grab a few sheets of paper and keep them folded up in my pocket, to jot things down when needed. this covers my irl day-to-day pretty well -for the virtual stuff i use simplenote because it's got apps on every platform i use, and failing that there's a webclient which is nice in the event i am on a computer that isn't mine. -i really, really wanted to get a nice taskwarrior setup going, but i found that getting the server up for sync purposes to be overly complex. after alot of searching and trying-outs and whatnot the setup that remains due to its ease and portability is a little thing called dstask, which uses a private github repo as its base. setup is as simple as a 'git clone .my/repo' and a 'npm i dstask', and running the sync command updates the repo in a way that i -wish- hub's 'hub sync' command would operate. with the speed of computing these days, i reformat and reinstall my os maybe once a week or so because it's literally faster than trying to un-break something when i manage to mangle something up. so this is a super easy thing to have to constantly re-deploy because git and npm are, naturally, some of the first things that get installed on a fresh setup so that's how i manage to be somewhat functional and independent in my short-term type stuff. for longer projects and just to keep up the habit, i keep a pretty large amount of notebooks around, because i am prone to forgetting to grab one so my solution was to have so many that there is now one or two at just about any place i am at routinely. i have a sort of system to keep track of what i guess i would call this 'distributed notebook' but it would probably drive you insane in a sort of lovecraftian way if you tried to make sense of the clusterfuck method - like if i refer to something in another notebook i draw an arrow and depending on the orientation i know what other notebook i am referring to, because the arrow points to its physical direction relative to wherever it is i am writing. obviously the big problem here is encryption but the first rule of encryption club is,... |