There’s a lot of to-do list apps, reminders, calendars etc out there advertised towards us to help us do things like break down large tasks into meaningful chunks and focus on what we need to do each day, but I want to hear from the community what do you guys think is the best so let’s start a thread

  • ArbitraryOasisEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I use the following four apps to manage my chaos ✌️:

    • Workflowy - General archive and digital memory (Divided in Inbox, Several dossiers/projects, Other, and Archive. I dump everything in Inbox first and sort it when I can.)
    • Tasks.org - For its simple todo list widget. Mainly little things I have to do, sorted into 4 priorities by color (app does this automatically).
    • A calendar - I use a lot of recurring ‘all day’ events. (Like for getting notified I need to take out the trash on Wednesday)
    • Stock Android Clock/alarm - I have alarms set for a lot of daily recurring things. Like literally alarms for taking medication to alarms for reminding myself I have to go to sleep.

    Important things I often put in all several of the above 😊 I tend to swipe notifications away, but if 3 apps notify me, well it works. So garbage on Wednesday is a recurring weekly thing in calendar and alarm ⏰

    It’s actually a pretty fast setup when you get used to it. But I do put things in at least one app immediately. If I wait, I forget.

    Workflowy is truly awesome imho. I put everything in there, even things like the address of my dentist. This way, I have only have one place I have to search for anything I need. It has a great search function. It’s really handy that you can share text from anywhere with the app, which then throws it in the inbox. Sorting things is also very smooth, isn’t necessary that often, and make me feel good when I do it. Very handy.

    I use all of the above in the most basic way. No tag systems or anything; I can’t keep those systems up for longer than a couple of days. I only use simple basic, inbuild functions that I can perform quickly. Together they work very well for me.

    Hope this is helpful! Good luck! 👍🍀