Any pain points?
I also believe that our brains should primarily be used for thinking, and not storage. What would an ideal productivity or personal management app look like?
Esp features that promote task completion and continuous improvement.
Particularly, the habits of capturing tasks when off desktop.
* email to myself from my phone
* pen and small paper notebook
I put captured info in appropriate org files when I'm at the desktop.
Notes on the phone - maybe I need to reduce the number of clicks to be able to capture them faster (Google Keep widget maybe?)
Doesn't work for me - I've lost some notes that way. For me notebook as temporary information storage is better.
To sync and edit org files on your phone you can use the app Orgzly.
Sublime for quick notes and drafts.
Workflowy for nested notes. Not as a todo list. It's a good way to nest notes in notes. For example, I made a list of tropes, categorized them by heroic vs villainous, male or female, personality, description, and so on. And added lots of notes and tags for each. This is a mess if you try to do it in Evernote, but perfect for Workflowy.
Google Assistant is awesome for a variety of tasks, mainly related to reminders and timers. Have to leave the house fourty minutes? "Okay Google, set a timer for forty minutes" No calculations needed.
I would like to see a complex note taking tool that just works. Evernote is a bloated mess. Notion is sluggish. One Note seems to require too much thought. I've been making do with small note takers but I still need something heavy duty.
I do use Evernote's business card scanner a lot but I'd rather just pay for a specialized business card scanner app.
Evernote does all this but it lags too much when trying to read from my phone.
As for my todo's I use Things. I tried to make as much use of Area's and Projects as I can to split up my todo list in a logical sense.
For notes I use the Bear Notes app. Thanks to it's # tag style structure I can easily flesh out my own dir structure on it.
Last but not least: paper + pen. Nothing beats that when I'm working on a feature and I need to keep track of todo's that still need done. All of these todo's are done by the end of the feature off course. Nothing long term on paper.
having a monthly, weekly, and daily spread really calms the chaos.
I schedule 30 minutes at the end of the week to write down what has happeded, what went well or better than expected, what to improve, and what to do next.
These are the most productive 30 minutes of the week, btw.
i have my phone and mac calendars synced so i don't have any schedule conflicts and keep track of events easily.
Each day had a check list for production.
Each Monday I reset it all.
I don’t love it but it works.
I don’t know what that means exactly.