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

[hwarium]

omg doxy, thank you for writing this up in my comments, I had so much fun reading it. like if you want to directly turn this into a dw post I don't blame you bc its formatted and ready to go.

- raindrop and instapaper are definitely things I will look into bc I want to fit in more longform journalism over doomscrolling! and shout out to pocket <3 I remember using that along with evernote webclipper

- unfortunately things 3 is not in the running bc I have an android phone - it does look sooo pretty and well integrated into the apple ecosystem. I was just playing around with TickTick yesterday which is a similar program and love how intuitive everything feels. Similar functionality as Todoist (which I had set up years ago for all my someday-to-dos) but just sliiightly better UI which makes it so much more streamlined to use. I do have to say, apps are fun to use!