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Tangentially, what I want in a note/todo app is that the first screen will be a list of categories, like "car" and "shower". Under "car" would be a note I made that says "bring new SD card for dash cam".

I'd look in "car" before heading out to the car, and see that note and remember to bring the SD card out to it. I'd habitually check all of these before doing anything, so I didn't keep forgetting things I needed to do like bringing an SD card with me when I head out instead of having to walk back into the house once I'm in the car and remember or bringing the new shampoo bottle into the shower before I get in it. Also useful would be repeatable checklists, for things like putting my xbox controller in my backback before heading out on a frequent long trip.

Is there anything like this?

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I love Google's Keep for this. It's very simple. Text notes or checklists, organized into major categories (labels). I have a set of shopping lists (grocery, hardware, office supply...), another set of bars and restaurants (by location/neighborhood), checklists for so many activities. Works seamlessly on my MBP and Android phone.

Although it's not purpose built for this, you can do this fairly well with Evernote itself. These guys describe a system that uses tags like @work @home etc. as part of a larger GTD setup: https://thesecretweapon.org/. (My own setup was originally based on their suggestions, and I've found it very handy over the years.)

One of those IFTT style projects, at the height of the Getting Things Done fad era had features like this. You could set locations or triggers (leave home wifi network as a proxy for "car" or "leaving the house") that would prompt you with reminders from that list.

I cannot remember anything else about it but the idea seemed really useful if you could make it reliable.

OmniFocus

Or really, most any Note/ToDo that has first class support for GTD aka Getting Things Done which leverages the notion of @contexts.

I've been playing around with a similar concept for the last year or so, with contexts like "On the go", "Have / Do not have internet connection", "Access to work intranet", etc., and whether a phone could do a good enough job of determining whether you're in a collection of those contexts.

Thanks for pointing me at OmniFocus, it looks really cool. Unfortunately, I'm an Android/Windows guy, and I doubt the Web version is going to be good enough at contexts for it to be worth it for me... :(

EDIT: Might give this one a try: https://appfluence.com/productivity/priority-matrix-omnifocu...

OneNote has several nested levels of tabs. You could make a tab at one level that says "Places" and then tabs under that for each location. Or, you can keep multiple lists with headers next to each other on a single page.

In Trello, you could have one list per location and just add items to the lists, then archive each item when you're done.

The iOS Reminders app?

IOS built in reminders app should do the trick for the todos. Not sure about the checklists although you could hack that as a todo list you never tick off.

Not sure if you need a formal workflow but you could probably use just about any note-taking app that has labels and just fiter to that labe.

Check out an iOS app called Ikiru.

Workflowy could do this.

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