Somewhat off topic, does anyone use Paper/Pencil (specifically bullet journals), Apps and Digital Calendars with what feels like not much effort? I haven't been able to come to a happy medium between them all.
Also Concern #3, is there a subscription for things? o.O
I think the more tools you have, the harder it gets. I see some of these productivity guys, like Ali Abdaal, on YouTube and their systems look like a nightmare, with 8 different apps depending on the type of data.
The easier I make it on myself the better.
At work, after trying seemingly everything, I think I hit my stride with Obsidian. I have a plugin to show a calendar that works with the daily notes. I setup a template for that with a todo heading and a notes heading. I treat that kind of like a bullet journal. Each day I move over the stuff that wasn’t finished from the last day. The notes section is to give me a scratch pad for stuff that I only need that day. Other notes go to their own page to easily find later (with none of that zettlekasten nonsense). If I have a lot in my mind at the end of the day, especially on a Friday or before vacation, I’ll fill out the daily note for the day I plan to be back in the office, so I can remember where I left off. I can also open up a future daily note to add an item if I need to follow up on something on a certain day. For normal meetings I use Outlook, because I have to.
At home, the above system doesn’t work so well, because I have a lot less going on. I don’t need something that requires daily interaction like that. I have been writing up some ideas for an app I plan to write that will hopefully solve this problem for me. Time will tell how that plays out. In the meantime I’m using Apple Reminders and Calendar in a pretty basic form.
I use a notebook and pen. It's like having another screen, except it's my list of todo's and its always open and in front of me.
I write a list of todos, check them off as I go, then rewrite that list once the page is full or after a few days - leaving off those that are done. I've found it works better than any app (and I have tried many).
Side tangent: I love Ruby, but strongly dislike and discourage `unless` in the code base. It still trips me up having written Ruby 5 years at this stage. Maybe its just me but I still pause every time for myself when looking at `unless` with a multi conditional. Example:
Maybe a decade of doing ruby has rotted my brain, but I love `unless`, and use it often.
Yes, every `unless` could be rewritten with an `if` instead, certainly. But I like the implication of weight these keywords carry in English language. `unless` implies it's a minor condition, that the majority of runs should fall on the opposite side of the conditional, where as `if` does not -- both weights of the condition feel potentially equivilant-ish.
I've known a handful of people who can handle conditionals inside an unless, and dozens who can't. I'm in the latter camp. Banning conditionals in an unless is a very reasonable rule to follow
Built one of these as a ruby gem in case it's useful for others. I use as a dev log and mini issue tracker for projects where a project mgmt tool feels like overkill. It can sync to your local knowledge base (for me obsidian) if you want too. https://github.com/aquaflamingo/devlogs
This would be the contrarian perspective, and it's an interesting thought to consider. If memory serves, I think Marc A points out in an old Youtube conference video how most new technologies follow the Promethean myth in their relationship to society.
Funny enough your observation of
> "There are more accountants now than then."
could be extrapolated from in two ways
The optimistic perspective might suppose technological development gives rise to new marketplace adaptations and creation of new and tangential jobs. For example, Facebook / Social Networks / Search creating new roles like: Influencers, Social Media Managers, Search Engine Optimization, et cetera.
For the pessimist perspective, I think you could suppose the "end state" of all technological progress in human societies is, eventually, an oligopoly of two industries: bureaucracy (legal) and politics (marketing).
Hi there, funny enough part of the motivation for me to build this was that I am a DJ and purchase a lot of music. I'm actually building an app right called Crates which is focused on DJs and music purchasers https://getcrates.xyz. I was thinking of integrating purchases into the app somehow, we will see!
Also Concern #3, is there a subscription for things? o.O