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[โ€“] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You'll almost certainly need both paper and electronic solutions, because you'll remember stuff when you don't have paper handy. If you can get ideas out of your head quickly, that tends to help more than having the right medium available.

I like using paper for scribbling things down while working on a task, but then my phone and computer for almost everything else. And if I have something on paper that I haven't finished, I either move it into Todoist or throw it away.

I'm an old index card person, so I love ripping up completed task lists. It feels very therapeutic to me.

[โ€“] eeen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What apps and programs do you use?

[โ€“] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)
  • Todoist for projects and tasks
  • Standard Notes or Obsidian for notes or temporary lists

I prefer to have one authoritative database of tasks (Todoist) and then I use whatever plain text or Markdown tools are available to me in the moment for short term lists. I have settled on Standard Notes for longer term/reference notes, but I could just as easily use anything with plain text files.

[โ€“] eeen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

thank you! :)

[โ€“] Nemo@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

Electronic doesn't work for me, notifications and even the act of unlocking the phone distract me. Pen and paper bullet journal are what have worked best for me. If there's anything I need to remember while I'm out, I text it to my wife, because I'll recheck that messaging thread throughout my day.