Open Q - organisational systems

[hwarium]

Question to moots and flyby visitors alike: how do you organise your life?! What do you use to track the myriad of sisyphean tasks that composite the human existence: chores, life admin, hobbies, social commitments and big events, side projects, reading lists, expense tracking and budgeting, journalling, article archiving, correspondance..... .... ..or perhaps do you just let go and speedrun raw.

I'm thinking about resetting some systems because items have been slipping off my mind into the ether. I'm currently looking at some kind of app for reoccurring tasks (ticktick / things 3 / microsoft to-do) and consolidating calendars, but would love to know what has worked, or not worked, for this corner of the internet.

Current profile:

• digital systems: android phone + pc + OS + iOS
• journalling, planning, expense tracking, general list-making: pen and paper (jibun techo + leuchtturm)
• budgeting: excel
• thoughts dump, flash to-dos, gym notes: google keep
• holiday planning: google maps and google sheets
• hobby tracking: todoist but ineffective

Comments

[hyojungss]

i don't claim to have a handle on the tasks i'm supposed to do haha but this is what i use.

* google tasks: categorized lists (eg. things to do before moving, things i want to buy on black friday, cleaning tasks), this is somewhat new but i have liked it
* microsoft to-do: work equivalent of google tasks - started doing this recently
* bring: grocery/purchase list (i like how it automatically generates a relevant icon)
* google sheets: expense tracking and calculations for life + indv trips
* google docs: trip planning, personal journalling (i just build on one doc for months. i used to use penzu for journalling which kept them all in one place, but it was easier to put screenshots in gdocs. ironically i had to stop doing that because it was consuming too much of my google storage... might switch back idk!)
* google calendar: appointments, trips, birthdays, events
* google reminders: if i think of something i need to do (or a line for fic...) on my drive home i tell my car to make a reminder for me... it shows up in my calendar
* google maps: saved places to go
* goodreads/letterboxd/youtube watch later/spotify manual listen later playlist: respective things i can consume later
* new tab extension: used to use this in the same way as google tasks (it shows up when i hit new tab on google chrome, and has pages to write notes)
* material notes app: used this for recipes, other long-term reminders but it fell off as i started using it for minute cryptic...
* facebook messenger self-chat: rapid self-thoughts, reminders, plans for the day

[hwarium]

!!! hi risa!! love the solid google system embed very sleek of you (I'm smiling at the image of you talking to your car to write fic and the fb messenger self-chat habit, it's one step removed from a sci fi premise)

- I will check out google tasks, vaguely aware it's a newer app in the google family (nvm 2018 which is 7 years ago). Is this the one you use on the go?
- I'm like you for google docs and trip planning, it's so easy to share with friends as you go and I love the chaotic energy of a badly formatted mood board inside a doc. reminds me of fandom manifesto days :')
- did you know youtube watch later playlist has an upper limit of 5000 (victim who found out last week)
- you have reminded me that I also need to think of a system to archive recipes

[hyojungss]

> oh yeah i'm too far gone into google...
> talking to my car is the only time i use some kind of "digital assistant" and that's simply because it's the only way to record my thoughts while driving T__T car systems need to be improved... i need dictation at the ready
> i really only use google tasks for those categorized lists and those are usually medium-long-term tasks, but yes it is convenient on mobile. if it's like something i wanna do when i get home i put it in self-chat lol or a reminder
> omg i didn't know LOL my watch later is at 178, i try to cull if it's not something i'm interested in anymore
> i've tried a few things for recipes that haven't really stuck, the one that works for recipes i actually use is my dreamwidth posts LOL.

[hwarium]

- I'm going to take a look at google tasks today and see how it's different to keep (controlling individual tasks over sticky notes I think)
- omg me too, I go back to my own to even remember what I can cook + ofc dw user kumquat's gorgeous recipe list with pictures. I think there's a point to be made about how the more effort you spend documenting your life, the more you revisit that doc... sounds like we should both continue the dreamwidth recipe series