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This is very close to what I do, with a few modifications. Biggest difference is that I use Emacs Org-mode (https://orgmode.org/) which automates things like date strings, building a daily agenda, adding due dates, and the monotony of getting your itemized lists properly indented. (and a whole lot more)

Everything lives in my TODO.org file that's mirrored via dropbox between all my devices and on my phone where I use the Beorg app on the iphone (https://beorgapp.com/).

I archive my finished TODO items at the end of the year. Taking the opportunity to delete (mark CANCELED) things that no longer need doing and carrying over any TODO items that still need getting done.

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You sound like someone that could really use Syncthing if youre into your own DIY cloud. I absolutely love it and I don't need an account to use it either.

and syncthing's version control comes in handy every now and again too

I've instead gone for a git repo hosted on my VPS. That way I can use all the version control features of git, as well as the various tools that make it easy to look through my history, etc.

I do this and it is extremely powerful and extensible.

On top of this, I also track how much time I spend on different projects and then run a script that generates graphs to summarize my weekly and monthly usage of time.

However, I still use a physical daily agenda to take from my TODO list one or two concrete tasks I will focus on each day.

I do roughly the same thing with a Google Doc.

Of all the apps/tools I've tried, it turns out that the complexity of the tools was really just another form of procrastination.

Just a daily list I write out in the morning, and work through - bumping unfinished things up to the next day if needed.

This is what I do too, but I have it as a general list of things I want to get done like

[] Mon - task 1

[] Mon - task 2

[] Tue - task 3

[] Tue - task 4

This way I don't hard time lock the tasks and just do them until they're done

Thanks for the beorg link - I've been trying to find a way to make my org-mode files mobile-accessible.

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