[madrox]

As someone who has used every TODO method under the sun over the last 20 years and talked to other people on their own work tracking journeys, I think task management to be a deeply personal thing that has to map to how you think and do things for it to stick.

Pen and paper worked great for me when I did everything at a desk (or carried a notebook with me) and I was always doing deep focus work. I went digital when I started being more mobile in my work and I had a lot of contexts where I needed to jot quick TODOs as I thought of them. Also, it's difficult to collaborate with my wife using paper.

The inbox mechanic for tasks works great, because I don't need to add all my task metadata right away. I can also annotate projects and contexts so I can say "what are my TODOs when I'm at home" or "what are my TODOs related to a person on my team". Now that I'm tracking over 20 things, it's necessary to stay organized

[bibliotekka]

The Cortex Sidekick Notepad is pretty great for analog task management. Expensive, but pretty great.

[madrox]

I've tried it before. I didn't find it meaningfully better than a moleskine with grid paper (in some ways worse) or sticky notes around my monitor. Again, paper for task management doesn't work for me