I hear ya. I don’t carry a notebook with me, and don’t like to fill my pockets. So I appreciate the low tech suggestion, but will have to pass on this!
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SpookyMulder@twun.io 6 days ago
Every now and then this question comes up. It’s a timeless software engineering conundrum. Kind of like how med students might start to think they have all kinds of diseases and conditions because they’re learning all these symptoms.
Software engineers, especially new ones, tend to be heavily biased toward applying technical solutions to non-technical problems. Most never actually grow out of this.
I’ll advise what I advise every time someone approaches me or one of my peer groups with thiw very question:
Get yourself a notebook and a pen.
I’m dead serious, not trolling, and not some kind of technophobe zealot.
When it comes down to it, if you let go of what you think you need in a to-do list app, you’ll find that what you actually need much simpler.
Notebooks are e2e encrypted. Self hosted. Offline. As ephemeral as you like. Indexable for search. Versatile. Take a picture of a page if you really want to. OCR it if you need to.
Pen and paper.
quaff@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
I carry a phone, I’m not carrying a notebook and pen.
I did that 40 years ago.
Plus that list doesn’t show up on my laptop or my desktop, other places I’m working.
It’s not sortable by date/time, priority or project.
That’s terrible advice, and doesn’t even meet the basic requirements of the question.