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But is it faster than getting a pen and jotting down your to-do's on paper? Mac opens up fast these days for sure, but... Anyhow, I really like the idea and wish you all the best with this! Looks real good.

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As someone who has used every TODO method under the sun over the last 20 years and talked to other people on their own work tracking journeys, I think task management to be a deeply personal thing that has to map to how you think and do things for it to stick.

Pen and paper worked great for me when I did everything at a desk (or carried a notebook with me) and I was always doing deep focus work. I went digital when I started being more mobile in my work and I had a lot of contexts where I needed to jot quick TODOs as I thought of them. Also, it's difficult to collaborate with my wife using paper.

The inbox mechanic for tasks works great, because I don't need to add all my task metadata right away. I can also annotate projects and contexts so I can say "what are my TODOs when I'm at home" or "what are my TODOs related to a person on my team". Now that I'm tracking over 20 things, it's necessary to stay organized

The Cortex Sidekick Notepad is pretty great for analog task management. Expensive, but pretty great.

I've tried it before. I didn't find it meaningfully better than a moleskine with grid paper (in some ways worse) or sticky notes around my monitor. Again, paper for task management doesn't work for me

I wonder if one human lifetime is enough to count all the TODO apps.

Strongly in the pen and paper camp, myself.

Yes, it'd take me several minutes to track down a pen and paper.

"Hi siri, remind mind to do AB CD EF"

"Hi siri, remind mind to do AB CD EF"

"I found some results on the web. I can show them to you again if you ask from your iPhone."

I mean… Yeah? Most likely?

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