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arthur_oooon Ask HN: How do you structure your to-do lists?

The global Todo is actually two 'lists': email-based todo (managed with this system: https://dansilvestre.com/gtd-gmail/amp/#, slightly tweaked), and a OneNote page inside my main OneNote notebook for everything not coming from an email. The daily Todo tends to be paper, as there's something really satisfying about physically checking off items through the day to complete the list.

arthur_oooon Ask HN: How do you structure your to-do lists?

I keep two lists but organized slightly different:

- a global todo with things ordered by topic (no particular order of importance) which I go over regularly

- a daily Todo which consists of items I've 'checked out' for the day, which is the things I want to get done today - I try to keep the daily Todo doable by factoring in the time things will take. I also try to keep this daily todo achievable and not overly optimistic

Every morning I'll define my daily todo and merge back to the global one at the end of the day - I can always adjust on the fly the daily todo (even if I try to avoid that, barring emergencies) or can also always add stuff for later to the global one of course as things pop up

arthur_oooon Ask HN: Anyone considered being phone-free?

100% agree, from past experience, the phone itself isn't the issue and there are many aspects through which phones are gamechangers compared to c.15 years ago.

Maps + GPS are a great example, but generally any usage through which the phone gives you access to information in the right context (as opposed ti having to look up everything asynchronously from a computer) is invaluable. Being able to read email on the go to find an info (address, meeting time, previous interaction with someone, that time XX mentioned YY in an email, etc.), to check reviews on the quality purchases from the store (e.g. am I buying the right book books), to adapt and find a kid's playground/restaurant/transportation when travelling after having deviated from plans, etc.

It seems to me there is little debate in the fundamental benefits smartphones bring to the table, and what we need to work on is our relationship to the phone: querying it for info when we need it, and not letting it push useless info to us, as well put by the parent comment. Also, under that premise, any sort of entertainment should be avoided (it's just screentime with all it's negatives). Not sure how I'd classify Hacker News :)

arthur_oooon Ask HN: Good contact management solution WITHOUT sales management

Thanks for the suggestion - I just tried signing up but cannot : I don't have a US mobile phone number (we're based in France) so I can't get past the OTP validation...

arthur_oooon Ask HN: What drives you?

I am currently obsessed with financial literacy/illiteracy and the complexity of the financial system - not just at a large/corporate level, but also for personal finances and pretty much any aspect of our lives that incorporates financial products. It's crazy how that complexity blurs the reality of what is offered to us and makes it extremely hard to make good decisions, and how much of an overhead it adds to going through everyday life.

It obsesses me, and hence drives a lot of what I read, watch or do on my free time, hence you could say that it drives me !