I used a lot of Todo and Note taking APP over the years.
My last and the one that ended up working more for me was Microsoft TODO because it was simple and synced with my phone, and actually worked seamless with IOs Reminder app. I sticked with it for a lot of time, but in the end, after a hell week, most my tasks where red with due dates long passed. It just added to my stress seeing all that red.
Today I just carry a small notebook and a pen I like in my back pocket. If I have to do something I start with a
task like
- do something.
After done
+ do something
Every start of day, I just grab some coffee, sit for 5 min and go through the last day, what I done, what I could not finish, and create a new todo list for the day.
I also now just carry the notebook for quick notes. Notebook for temporary stuff.
If is something more permanent stuff that I need to remember, I just add an entry in my OneNote. If is a event, in goes to my outlook Calendar.
OneNote is hardly ideal, I used to run my life on Notion, but it works well enough, but there where some problems.
* Too much cluter. I did not use 1/3 of what it could do
* I run out of space, and I did not wanted another monthly payment to get premium stuff
* The search in One is reasonable, and does the job
* I can draw in my tablet, for simple diagrams
* Tt syncs with my phone independent if I'm using Android of IOs without me have to think much about it
* is already included in my Office 365 family plan.
* works offline, different from Notion.
My only grip is OneNote don't have a Linux desktop app, just wrappers for the web app, and pasting code on it is a fucking disaster. Other than that, it does the job.
The only thing now that would make me switch is Obsidian, but the IOs app is a fucking disaster. you cannot open vaults outside the Obsidian folder, and I was using git to sync it, but IOs dont have a good free Git app that can sync folders anywhere I want it.
Also, having to sync manually and solving merge conflits for my notes is kinda a pain in the ass.
I am right now on Apple Reminders, which has its advantages, but I've also used OmniFocus a lot, as well as org-mode. And I switch between them from time to time.
Org-mode could be perfect, but sync and mobile apps are PITA. Reminders are good, but limited. However, they are well integrated with calendar. OmniFocus is somehow in between, has own scripting engine, complex, limited at some places, but will surely get it done.
As much as I am with the idea of writing, bringing the pen and notebook with you me all the time get old pretty soon. And, such are the details of modern life, a lot of information arrives per mail or links. Also, no meaningful context can be saved with task. What would happen is that I would have to maintain 2 system - short written tasks and digital information storage for them, and somehow link between them.
But why I commented here: indeed, in the end the system itself does not matter that much. The regular review, in GTD terms, does. Cleaning up junk tasks, plan the day, process the inbox - it can be done with anything.
and just a quick resume:
What I find that independent of your note taking system, what really makes the different is that 5 min I told, that I sit and process what was done in the previous day. The discipline to rethink your day, apply again what it works, and do a little different what it did not worked, thats whats really makes the different.
My cousin developed leukemia as kid when he was only 3 years old in the end of the seventies.
At the time, specially in Brazil, the decease was a death sentence. His mother took him to dozen of doctors and specialists.
His condition deteriorated fast, and she endup trying even pseudoscinece stuff like spiritual healing and mediuns. She made a promise to the patron saint of her church, Saint Judas, to help people in the same situation as her.
At the time, the brazilian equivalent of the FDA was debaging releasing Interferon as a threatment for kids in Brazl. She was able to put him in trials and the treatment worked on him. My cousin is still alive and kicking to this day, but unfourtunaly, he became infertile as a result of the threatment.
To fulfill her promise, my auntie organized a group in the Rotary and over the years the raised donations, organize a charity auctions and received some land as a donation. In the place they started a children hospital for treatment of cancer called GPACI. The open in 1981, and today the hispital a reference of research and treatment of kids in Brazil.
yeah, thres a cool story. A wealth lady gave her a diamond neckless that was audictioned. The person who won the neckless in the auction gave it back to my aunt, so she could auction it again. The same neckless was auctioned like 3, 4 times because of that. A lot of generous people helped her pave the way, but it was her wll and determination that focused this efforts.
Personally I dont have a good relationship with her, because of things she done in the family, including to my own parents, but damn if this don't goes to show that even peolpe we may think are bad can can make the world a better place. She does have a lot of good karma to expend the rest of her life.
Everybody want their company to be a google where you are willing to waste that mauch time to get hired.
In the end, HR hiring team fails to recruit because in makes the process to expensive for candidates, and the CEOS hire more HR recruitment becasue they think the problem is the lack of people to hire. HR needs to justify the salary, and makes hiring more a pain in the ass, feeding the vicious cycle.
I miss the times where HR only responsabily was to process salary payment.
Thats why, me at 40`s, now am I working in a german auto industry where they still got more traditional views and p promote people with time inside the company.
Hip companies dont hire me, maybe some tech consultants, that would not be considered cool, like accenture or IBM.
A few years ago I was one of the first people in my country tomigrate my company android app to Kotlin, this helped me land in the app development team of a big bank in my country and I was by far the oldest dude. Everybody called me "uncle" there, very common to young people in my country to call older people that, because most where college kids.
That's why ageism is stupid - in my experience age is uncorrellated with technical chops and productivity, with people who actually know their stuff and care about the job they're doing coming from every possible age bracket.
One of the most productive guys and all around technical wizard I know is a father of 3 in his 40s.
I do know a few people straight out of college who are rather excellent devs, but the problem with a lot of them them is that they have inflated egos and don't take feedback at at all, and/or they move around a lot.
Imagine building up a guy who works like crazy with a huge body of knowledge, then he's out of the company the next year, and nobody knows what any of his code does.
You men the poor resisdents, because this people dont plunder and burn the mansions in Beverly Hills, where they hire private security and have gated communities.
They burn the small business of honest working people.
The Ministry of Enlightenment is doing its job well.
"We made the story. We shaped it. We blew it up. We decided when it was over. With the right ideas planted in the right markets, in the right sequence, we can now weaponize this galactic opinion."
―Dee Shambo[1]
Now that the people that believe in QAnon are in power, they have 100x resources to spread disinformation. When conspiracy theorist are the ones in power, is it really a conspiracy anymore? It is policy.
Strictly speaking, I have not expressed any conspiracy theory.
Do you think just stating what is happening is a conspiracy?
Is the situation not being inflamed? Are troops not moving in? Do you think these aren't happening? I'm curious because I'm always a little unclear if conspiracy people think things aren't actually happening, like this is fake video or something?
We've been hearing "11 million" for decades. No one really knows what the number is because no one in charge of finding out has wanted to know, but it's far higher.
No it’s not. We know, we can calculate just like we can calculate the population from the census even though not everyone fills it out. You are a disgusting person spreading fear, uncertainty, and doubt. You’ve got zero proof of that and are trying to revert my comment to spread your fear campaign.
1. We can't just start making things up and working backwards. Okay, you think immigration is bad, now prove it. Y'all are absolutely incapable of that so instead you're just gonna claim fake news, fake numbers, yadda yadda yadda. Come on, it's pathetic.
2. Even if it WAS 1 billion people or whatever - why is that bad? The magic question you can never answer.
Is it bad because "white genocide"? Is it bad because jobs? Is it bad because those people are criminals? What's the threat here?
Because, from where I'm standing, these people don't hurt anything. In fact, they're very productive members of society! They work hard, harder than fucking lazy fat white Americans, I'll tell you that. They're modest. They're kind. They don't commit crimes because they're scared shitless of being deported. So what's the problem?
Nowhere in any western country, Heck, I've visited a bit of Africa and tons of south east Asia and a bit of South America and this ain't true neither for any of countries I visited.
My last and the one that ended up working more for me was Microsoft TODO because it was simple and synced with my phone, and actually worked seamless with IOs Reminder app. I sticked with it for a lot of time, but in the end, after a hell week, most my tasks where red with due dates long passed. It just added to my stress seeing all that red.
Today I just carry a small notebook and a pen I like in my back pocket. If I have to do something I start with a task like
- do something.
After done
+ do something
Every start of day, I just grab some coffee, sit for 5 min and go through the last day, what I done, what I could not finish, and create a new todo list for the day.
I also now just carry the notebook for quick notes. Notebook for temporary stuff. If is something more permanent stuff that I need to remember, I just add an entry in my OneNote. If is a event, in goes to my outlook Calendar.
OneNote is hardly ideal, I used to run my life on Notion, but it works well enough, but there where some problems.
* Too much cluter. I did not use 1/3 of what it could do
* I run out of space, and I did not wanted another monthly payment to get premium stuff
* The search in One is reasonable, and does the job
* I can draw in my tablet, for simple diagrams
* Tt syncs with my phone independent if I'm using Android of IOs without me have to think much about it
* is already included in my Office 365 family plan.
* works offline, different from Notion.
My only grip is OneNote don't have a Linux desktop app, just wrappers for the web app, and pasting code on it is a fucking disaster. Other than that, it does the job.
The only thing now that would make me switch is Obsidian, but the IOs app is a fucking disaster. you cannot open vaults outside the Obsidian folder, and I was using git to sync it, but IOs dont have a good free Git app that can sync folders anywhere I want it.
Also, having to sync manually and solving merge conflits for my notes is kinda a pain in the ass.
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