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Helder Burato Berto
Helder Burato Berto

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What tools and flows do you use to organize your life

Hey!

What flow do you use to organize your life? For me, I use a combo of tools Todoist + Notion.

At Notion I use the following flow:

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At Todoist I use the following flow:

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Let's share our experiences with organizing life tools and how they work for us.

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Gabriele Cimato

I have been using Todoist and the browser extension is quite useful. I have Notion but never used it actually. I meant to check it out. What do you actually use it for ? As the one place to keep all your notes ?

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Helder Burato Berto • Edited

That's nice! Thanks for share about Todoist extension I really don't know I'll give a try.
About Notion, basically I'm using to everything involves notes and when I need to share some content like the Frontend Architecture it's very easy to share content using it.

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Gabriele Cimato

Oh nice I'll find it a try since my Google keeps is quite messy at the moment!

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Adrian Perea

I use OneNote for all my notes and project ideas, A BuJo for my day-to-day and weekly tasks, and Trello for my project tasks.

I usually migrate my Trello tasks to my weekly tasks so I can keep my projects moving forward.

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Patrick Charles-Lundaahl

After experimenting with a ton of apps over the last five+ years, I've settled on Orgzly (android). It's built on org-mode, keeps my data on-device, is open-source, and generally just beats the pants off every other fancy proprietary solution I've found. SyncThing synchronizes it with my computer, though I could use Dropbox if I wanted.

Some of the things I use it for:

  • Todo lists
  • Repeating reminders
  • Idea capture
  • Project ideation (unlimited nesting of notes FTW)
  • Note-taking for things I read
  • Journalling
  • An all-purpose wiki

My next mid-term goal is to gain a decent proficiency with emacs and org-mode on my computer, but even if I wasn't willing to put in the time for that, I'd still use Orgzly.

My flows pretty much all revolve around Orgzly.

For idea capture, I have a shortcut that lets me insert a new note into the appropriate notebook. Every week, I organize the new ideas, then go through and tag any that I want to work on this week. They'll show up on my home screen.

For little tasks I want to get done, same deal. If I want to make sure I do them on a specific date, I just add the scheduled field. On that day (or after), they'll show up on my home screen.

For project ideation, I create a new note in my Projects notebook, and use nesting to define successively more and more granular levels of detail. Sometimes I'll create top-level notes that describe meta, features, links, etc. At any point I can turn any item into a Todo, and it'll show up on my home screen.

I dunno. It's nice and simple, and doesn't need to make HTTP requests every time I load a note or jot down a journal entry. I suppose I might need something more complex if I collaborated more, but since most of my projects are personal, I don't really bother. For the odd collaborative thing I do, I usually just use Google docs, or whatever we decide on as a team.

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Travis Fantina

Bear notes keeps pretty much everything I need for life and work. I tried Todoist for a while, I really dig the app and Doist as a whole but I just got out of the habit after a while.

Lately, I've been using Hey for email which has really simplified my email flow.

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Helder Burato Berto

I've using Bear for a long time and I really enjoy the clean layout, but the unique motive makes me move to Notion it is cross-platform.

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Ozan Bolel

It's mainly Google Keep and a part of my brain which is mostly full of garbage.

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perpetual . education

Google keep for random groceries. Trello for big timelines. Lots of little lists on paper like "what's the three most important things that can get done today."

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Arne • Edited

Used OneNote and Evernote, today only Notion since the new free Plan. Kanban, Tables, To-Do.. Love it

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David Romero

I used to do the Fancy-Way (Apps), but I guess I never got used to it. For me its Trello boards, and mail tickets turned into plain files and I rm them when I'm done.

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Helder Burato Berto

It seems nice, apparently involves a "gamified" way to track the productivity, thanks for your comment!