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by lifeisstillgood 821 days ago
I am currently rethinking my awful home organisation

A dropbox folder for each “case”/“project”.

A dropbox folder for each outside compmay

A password manager

Some gaffing with scripting to tie it together

I think pythonista ought to be part of it too

Edit: @DanielDe - apologies for that brain dump.

You built an app and launched it - fantastic. Honestly That’s an achievement most of us on HN cannot even claim. - my honest congratulations

I hope you find a niche and make 10,000 true fans happy.

I would love to hear your views on how to stay organised in life (or rather, how shall I put this, I don’t see organised as a pre-active thing but a post-active thing. It’s like project management - it supposed to remind you of the important things, to follow you around and capture the right information (#) not control or constrain your actions.)

Anyhow - congrats. Break a leg :-)

(#) the most obvious is monitor my communications - like capture my phone calls and keep that alongside the name of the contact in my phone list. But because iOS no-one can do that. I get it but also I don’t.

Anyhow I think I want a unicorn.

3 comments

I have no problem with a brain dump :)

Really appreciate the kind words! Indeed, actually launching is hard. Like everyone, I've got a big pile of abandoned side projects sitting in a folder somewhere.

I think we're pretty aligned on staying organized. For me, the most important bit is "capture". I need to be able to get tasks out of my head and into a task tracker from as many places as possible. Then later I can triage them.

Godspeed attempts to help with this by offering a global hotkey for quick entry, and an iOS app with Siri and shortcuts support. We also intend to add "log a task by email" soon.

I remember Projectpad being really close to what I wanted in this regard: https://github.com/emmanueltouzery/projectpad2/

Shame it appears to be abandoned.

u/lifeisstillgood look into "Building a Second Brain" and Tiago's PARA method, could help?