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Ask HN: What do you use for notes + reminders + tasks

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Recently, I came to the need of using a Note taking app + reminder + tasks. I've investigated multiple apps, but none of them does what I need entirely.

Apple Notes: notes, no tasks or reminders

Evernote: notes, no tasks or reminders (easy ones)

OneNote: crashed 5 times before even using it

Wunderlist: tasks + reminders, but the notes UI is poorly designed

Notion: cool concept, way too complicated

Todoist: tasks + reminders, no notes

Today I found 1 app that integrates with slack and I can write something like:

- /remind some task today at 5

- /remind some other task in 15 minutes ...but there's no easy way to get a big picture of what are the current tasks

I'm a heavy keyboard user, any action that would require clicking or scrolling is a loss of time.

Here comes my question: what do you use that proved to be useful?

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Notes:

Apple Notes - it's on every device I use and online, so it has the lowest friction. I use Apple Notes for grocery lists (using checkboxes), semi-permanent notes, and sometimes as an inbox of things to process later.

Task Management:

Things (https://culturedcode.com) using the basic GTD framework. I add things to the Inbox through the day to get them out of my head. In the morning and when taking a break from work, I process the Inbox into projects/areas as well as defer them (give them a date to start/do them). Every Sunday I do a review/braindump of projects or anything still open.

By the way, you can use this GTD method with any tool. I know people who do it with Apple Reminders.

One extra thing I do at the beginning of each day is pick 3 tasks I absolutely need to do by the end of the day - a successful day is when I do at least those 3. I got this idea from Chris Bailey's book "The Productivity Project".

I don't keep "permanent" notes (book notes, personal wiki, etc.). I've tried before and I never looked at them again nor did they help my memory.

Huge fan of notion. Although I understand why you think its too complicated, I think it will without a doubt do what you need entirely.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try again.

Org Mode in Spacemacs. Though I use agenda which is the passive form of reminders but works for my use case, if you need your org system to remind you; then this SO post [1] has some useful options, one among which is, on Emacs > 24, there is notifications!

[1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3844/good-methods-...

Notion does what you want, and it’s not that complicated.

In notion type “/todo” for a todo list, “/page” for a sub page, and “@remind <date/time>” for a reminder.

I use Zim wiki for notes, with a suitable SOP for making sure things float to the top when needed. I also have a script that crawls over the pages searching for "REMIND" lines, and sets reminders.

So in essence, Zim for notes, and a couple of scripts that reads the underlying pages and takes appropriate actions.

Heavily tailored to be exactly and only what I want, but easily extensible when needed.

On iOS, Streaks for daily habit forming and Due for a to-do list with advanced recurrence rules and nlp for interpreting the timeframe when capturing to-do items. Use org-mode on spacemacs/emacs if you want a feature rich task planner and note taker.

Mind sharing how you create advanced recurrence rules in Due ?

Define advanced.

What I had in mind was "Do X on the third Tuesday of every month".

For reminders and tasks: Google Keep from the Android phone and the Google Chrome extension.

For Notes: Boostnote plus Dropbox to share the notes between PCs. I used to be a user of Zim but at the time the lack of Vim keybindings it leds me to look other Notes tool.

I don't know what you did to one note, it would have been awesome to use, if I had discovered it before all my classes were so math heavy they essentially required notes to be taken in LaTeX. Haven't had it crash on me yet.

Just installed it and nothing much. works now, but I really need the reminders

Just wanted to add my little app as it does all three, as well as habits.

https://www.nominal.net

Let me know if you try it out and have any feedback, it is still pretty young.

Orgmode. It’s awesome. Only problem is mobile support sucks. Beorg app is trying to change it but it’s UI is ugly AF. It could use some help by a UX specialist

For org-mode I made this: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash demo: https://demo.filestash.app/view/emacs.org?share=orgviewer

Notes: Google Keep, with tags and sharing. Auto comes and syncs at every apple android web device, quick sync, minimalistic.

Apple sync?

Google Keep for notes, recipes, shopping lists on my Ubuntu desktop and my Android phone.

Google keep Tags, reminders, checklists, etc

How do you do reminders with natural language?

Google Keep, here.

THINGS!

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