[SnoozingBoa]

After trying almost everything I can imagine (probably twice) to manage my tasks and time I found the sweetspot from hybrid model of digital and analog. The system is rather simple: I write stuff to the paper (home and work) and then take a picture/scan with my phone. I use the appropriate cloud provider app depending on the context. Files are stored in chronological order.

I keep the current state on paper and whenever I need I just cleanup notes to the cloud and shred the papers.

The beauty of this is that I think I have finally got back the time that all these tools took from me. It was much simpler than I thought.

[sph]

I do something similar for notes: I have an A4 whiteboard I basically always have with me at home. I pace around a lot while thinking and love writing on a physical something. Most ideas are short term, and can be erased, but for anything else, I snap a picture of the whiteboard.

Notes apps are laughably terrible, I hate limiting my stream of consciousness to a one dimensional line of characters. Worse is trying to do it with two thumbs on a smartphone.

[SnoozingBoa]

Agree.

I also think that storing everything with some arbitrary tag/folder model enforces the misconception that everything that was once created is equally important. Notes/todo apps don’t really address this.

[ParetoOptimal]

Archiving or deleting old todos? A soneday/maybe list?