productivity / scheduling software

is there any of this shit that isn't just a glorified checklist?

is it worth using any of this shit?

i'll be honest. i don't keep a calendar, never have. don't keep any sort of checklist. this shit goes ALL in my head. and despite being a fragmented freelancer with a million totally unrelated projects, i manage to hold it down.

do i need software to help me? is this going to just erode my natural sort-of-keep-shit together strategy? i mean, it usually works out--occasionally i forget something but i figure no more than i would if i actually had some sort of help. and is it even possible, let alone desirable, to get into this sort of system if i've never been able to use an agenda for more than like 3 days straight in my life before?

i guess i'm just freaking out cuz i have slightly more than usual projects on the go now and what if i slip??

my igoogle page has a 'to-do list'. but i never used it. maybe i should.

the lifehacker crowd is big into remember the milk:

http://www.rememberthemilk.com/tour/

which is overkill for me, i'm not one for to do lists but i couldn't work without at least my calendar now (outlook synced w/ google calendar synced w/ phone); i'm a good 'mental noter' too but the brainspace a simple calendar frees up is invaluable.

hey lookee, it runs on iphone

my igoogle page has a 'to-do list'. but i never used it. maybe i should.

― sam500, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 06:00 (1 hour ago)

I have this and find it quite useful. The multiple tabs it offers are just enough functionality for me. It's simple, which is good.

My 3X5 cards and yellowy post-its strewn across the bottom of my G5 are a bit much but I like them because once the task is done I can hella just throw one into my trash and know the task is done.

Moleskine + Google Calendar

truth is i don't have much use for em these days

aint shit to plan

I don't have things to plan per se, but I sure as hell have a lot to do. Lists spiralling out of control...

krakow, get some yellow post-its and stick them right in front of you. once it gets irritating to see them all then you realise you need to to get rid of them. one task at a time.

i use ical and email. yes, i email shit i need to do to myself.

> the lifehacker crowd is big into remember the milk

have been reading lifehacker for a month or so now and i get the feeling that the time they save with these little software widgets they waste with desktop wallpaper carousals.

my linux desktop is 50% virtual yellow stickies (ie post-it notes) just with snippets of information i need. at work, it's all jotted down in a notebook (permanent stuff) or bits of paper tucked under the keyboard (temporary stuff).

i use ical and email. yes, i email shit i need to do to myself.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, February 4, 2009 11:23 AM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^This. I e-mail myself about his daily, back and forth between work and home. Also use a Moleskine. I registered for Google Calender months ago, but that big blank schedule is still staring at me. I can't bring myself to use it, for some reason.

his=this

ya i pretty much use email for this stuff. but not like, emailing myself, just searching my email for info on shit i need to do cuz it's usually in an email somewhere

i would use ical more (i use it in crunch situations like festivals) except i kind of hate the interface. something about adding events is really annoying

I use remember the milk. It ain't perfect but it's better than anything else ive tried

xpost yeah it's not that great but it works for me. should stop forgetting to add events though. roffle

I use iCal synced between home computer and iphone. I also have an app on iphone simply called ToDo. Knowing what to do is one thing, but actually doing things is another.

This guy is having multiple orgasms over something called Things:

http://shawnblanc.net/2009/01/a-review-of-two-things/#things_fnr2

Things is a software aid for Getting Things Done which has been talked about before here:

Getting Things Done (GTD) - Cult or Awesome?

my iCal syncing has blown up twice, so I've pretty much given up on trusting that.

I had Things on my phone. It's nicely done, but I got lotsa problems with GTD: way too much list maintenance, and the idea of contexts seems completely backwards: I don't find myself in a context looking for what to do next, I plan where I'm going to be depending on what needs doing.

had that too but now i have an iphone so a backup of sorts. :-)

i'll be honest. i don't keep a calendar, never have. don't keep any sort of checklist. this shit goes ALL in my head. and despite being a fragmented freelancer with a million totally unrelated projects, i manage to hold it down.

if you're not stressed and you're happy with your productivity then don't give this shit a moment's thought. it will probably only stress you out and the people who spend time writing about productivity on the internet are all the kind unproductive retards who buy dedicated hosting so they can post about brands of notepaper and juice bottle hacks. and there are plenty of people who are very productive despite being (because they are?) very unorganized. e.g. the office of the smartest person i ever met, a theoretical physicist, looks like a bomb has gone off in it. he is not a mad professor cliche though, he holds down an incredible research career but is also a major dude in administration and replies to email. but i've never seen him make a note of anything.

me, i was stressed out until i became aspie systematic about capturing and organizing things i needed to do, so i do all that gtd nonsense. i've used omnifocus for a year or two and am happy with it. i'm not sure how well that would work if you weren't doing the gtd thing (same goes for things, which is mentioned upthread).

You have to do GTD for more than a year before it makes any sense, before that it'll probably slow you down.

www.thinkingrock.com.au is pretty damned fantastic, if you can be arsed with GTD methodologies and such.

ya caek i hear that, it's just when i really get piled on i feel like i should have some sort of brain back-up!

all right this is neither productivity nor scheduling I just didn't know where to put it. it's fucking cool, is what it is. it's also essentially useless, just an art app. but man is it cool.

http://canopycanopycanopy.com/9/shadow__glare

this looks interesting:

http://www.veronicabelmont.com/2010/08/epicwin-is-just-that/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU1Q3b1EN9M