Ask HN: What ToDo features feel bad?
These ToDo features make me feel bad:
1) Ever expanding lists that put me in a defeatist mindset and distract me from what's urgent and important... 2) Analysis paralysis when prioritizing.
I like to track all the things. Currently I'm using WorkFlowy to record every thought and whim worth writing down, but it's becoming unwieldy and distracts my thoughts when I start down branches to enter some new information.
When it comes to prioritizing tasks, I can never seem to feel like I'm doing the right thing at the right time and maybe that says something more about me than the application, I'm quite the idealist and more of an inductive than deductive reasoner. I have to have a "why" in all I do.
Perhaps one solution is some kind of anti ToDo application that just keeps tracks of what you did and reminds you of your moral compasses, and maybe holds you to them in some kind of peer pressure way based on your public commitments? Or maybe it's just straight social altogether? But then help vampirism...
I've seen other applications that outsource management consulting which I love, and am toying with the idea of using an AI or some kind of moral compass mechanism, but tbh that kind of scares me - like I don't want to train some soulless machine to dictate to me what I ought to be doing, morally. Maybe I'm over thinking this. Maybe I should just do some stupid MVC ToDo app and let it grow cobwebs on GitHub. Penny for your thoughts - I want to at least make something that's enjoyable.