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What is the best tool for tracking todos, projects, meeting notes?
7 points by joflicu 2517 days ago
What do you use? Paper and pen vs electronic. Sometimes I find paper and pen works best when I am in a meeting where someone is presenting a complicated topic or problem.
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For work I use a mix between https://app.asana.com/ for long projects , https://slack.com as intranet and team communication and so much gmail for TO DO tasks.

My daily workflow includes a huge quantitie of mails which can b e threated as micro-tasks. I have a complex gmail inbox configuration with labels and filters.

But your best choice depends on the way you work and the nature of it

Todos: I use Trello with a handful of boards, most containing Getting Things Done style lists (Today, Tomorrow, This Week, Sometime).

Note-taking: I settled on Bear after trying Apple Notes, Evernote, and OneNote. While I can't search inside scanned docs, the UX is polished and syncing is flawless if you're in the Apple ecosystem.

Todos/Projects: I like Things on MacOS / iOS.

Meeting notes: I can't take notes in real time very well on a computer, tablet, phone, etc. I scribble notes in a cheap notebook, and then later rewrite the notes, either with better (slower) handwriting into a nice notebook, if the notes are for me personally, or into (e.g.) a Google document or wiki page, if they are to share with others.

Todos: taskbook[1]

Notes: Any decent quality paper and .38mm Uni-ball Signo

1: https://github.com/klaussinani/taskbook

As far as apps go, I would say Workflowy.

But I don't use it for that; I prefer 3x5 cards for todos.

But Workflowy REALLY shines as a way of hierarchically storing bookmarks

I use iOS/macOS Notes now.

I also liked Microsoft OneNote iOS/macOS, but Notes seems even better.

Google Keep

Love this little piece of shit

Ha! It's been around for 6 years or so, but I'd never heard of it before. Thanks.
Learn yourself some Org Mode.
todoist + evernote + trello
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