✅ Productivity

Summary

I've tried a crapload of tools for tasks, notes, bookmarking, scheduling and what not. I realize I was more interested in trying new things than in really 'maximizing' my 'productivity'.

These days I'm in a high-stress job involving a lot of churn and unpredictability, and I've found that checklists are /very/ useful and MS ToDo is a decent enough app to settle down with.

Bookmarks are overrated.

Note taking is, at least for me, an obsessive habit and immensely useful at work but fairly useless for personal goals.

Tools

I like and highly recommend the following tools:

  • MS To Do - this has an indispensable feature called 'Plan My Day' which is the first thing I do every morning. Makes it quite easy to surface things that you had scheduled for a particular day. Cross Platform, so it's really easy to add and review periodically.

  • OneNote - After using text-based editors for years, I've taken a liking to tools that support images. OneNote does this well with a great interface, 3 levels of 'folder' hierarchy and great integration with my stylus. I pretty much use this as a whiteboarding app these days and nothing much else.

  • Vim / Typora - I'm torn between markdown as a store of data and OneNote. Typora seems to bridge both worlds with a really nice UI and seamless integration for images. I use this at work for taking notes, documenting what I did each day, and so on.

References

Note Taking - Analog

To be honest I like the idea of notebooks more than actually using them.

Note Taking - Other

Todo lists

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