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How Todo Apps Should Work

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Let’s consider a normal day in our lives.

§Different modes:

  • just putting stuff into a list

    • Example: grocery shopping
  • todo entry without thinking; just for writing it down

  • entry with tags/context of usage

  • todo entry with dependency tree (often a linearized list?)

  • prioritization of todos

  • placing todos in timeslots (aka. scheduling) (Usage examples: ‘daily list’, ‘calendar’)

  • working on the highest prio todo (urgency, importance, …) overall

  • working on the best todo in ‘project’ (that should be tags)

  • working on todo in timeslot ‘now’ (aka. calendar)

  • getting an overview and saying no to things

    • Example: Kanban board