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Ask HN: What do you use for notes + reminders + tasks
Recently, I came to the need of using a Note taking app + reminder + tasks.
I've investigated multiple apps, but none of them does what I need entirely.
Apple Notes: notes, no tasks or reminders
Evernote: notes, no tasks or reminders (easy ones)
OneNote: crashed 5 times before even using it
Wunderlist: tasks + reminders, but the notes UI is poorly designed
Notion: cool concept, way too complicated
Todoist: tasks + reminders, no notes
Today I found 1 app that integrates with slack and I can write something like:
- /remind some task today at 5
- /remind some other task in 15 minutes
...but there's no easy way to get a big picture of what are the current tasks
I'm a heavy keyboard user, any action that would require clicking or scrolling is a loss of time.
Here comes my question: what do you use that proved to be useful?
- altern8 8y agoGoogle Keep, here.
- ColinWright 8y agoI use Zim wiki for notes, with a suitable SOP for making sure things float to the top when needed. I also have a script that crawls over the pages searching for "REMIND" lines, and sets reminders. So in essence, Zim for notes, and a couple of scripts that reads the underlying pages and takes appropriate actions. Heavily tailored to be exactly and only what I want, but easily extensible when needed.
- sandwhichmole 8y agoOn iOS, Streaks for daily habit forming and Due for a to-do list with advanced recurrence rules and nlp for interpreting the timeframe when capturing to-do items. Use org-mode on spacemacs/emacs if you want a feature rich task planner and note taker.
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 8y agoMind sharing how you create advanced recurrence rules in Due ?
- sandwhichmole 8y agoDefine advanced. What I had in mind was "Do X on the third Tuesday of every month".
- ibash 8y agoNotion does what you want, and it’s not that complicated. In notion type “/todo” for a todo list, “/page” for a sub page, and “@remind <date/time>” for a reminder.
- quietthrow 8y agoOrgmode. It’s awesome. Only problem is mobile support sucks. Beorg app is trying to change it but it’s UI is ugly AF. It could use some help by a UX specialist
- mickael-kerjean 8y agoFor org-mode I made this: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash demo: https://demo.filestash.app/view/emacs.org?share=orgviewer https://demo.filestash.app/view/emacs.org?share=orgviewer
- my_mind 8y agoMy mind.
- peruvian 8y agoNotes: Apple Notes - it's on every device I use and online, so it has the lowest friction. I use Apple Notes for grocery lists (using checkboxes), semi-permanent notes, and sometimes as an inbox of things to process later. Task Management: Things (https://culturedcode.com https://culturedcode.com) using the basic GTD framework. I add things to the Inbox through the day to get them out of my head. In the morning and when taking a break from work, I process the Inbox into projects/areas as well as defer them (give them a date to start/do them). Every Sunday I do a review/braindump of projects or anything still open. By the way, you can use this GTD method with any tool. I know people who do it with Apple Reminders. One extra thing I do at the beginning of each day is pick 3 tasks I absolutely need to do by the end of the day - a successful day is when I do at least those 3. I got this idea from Chris Bailey's book "The Productivity Project". -- I don't keep "permanent" notes (book notes, personal wiki, etc.). I've tried before and I never looked at them again nor did they help my memory.
- FightingTaco 8y agoI've found Notion satisfactory for notes, kanban boards, and simply having all things in one place. I use reminders in Slack as well.
- synapse0 8y agoGoogle keep Tags, reminders, checklists, etc
- adrian_pop 8y agoHow do you do reminders with natural language?
- tomjen3 8y agoI don't know what you did to one note, it would have been awesome to use, if I had discovered it before all my classes were so math heavy they essentially required notes to be taken in LaTeX. Haven't had it crash on me yet.
- adrian_pop 8y agoJust installed it and nothing much. works now, but I really need the reminders
- amanciero 8y agoFor reminders and tasks: Google Keep from the Android phone and the Google Chrome extension. For Notes: Boostnote plus Dropbox to share the notes between PCs. I used to be a user of Zim but at the time the lack of Vim keybindings it leds me to look other Notes tool.
- arleny 8y agoHuge fan of notion. Although I understand why you think its too complicated, I think it will without a doubt do what you need entirely.
- adrian_pop 8y agoThanks for the suggestion, I'll give it a try again.
- KiDD 8y agoTHINGS!
- davchana 8y agoNotes: Google Keep, with tags and sharing. Auto comes and syncs at every apple android web device, quick sync, minimalistic.
- Witeshadow 8y agoApple sync?
- LocalMan 8y agoGoogle Keep for notes, recipes, shopping lists on my Ubuntu desktop and my Android phone.
- timdavila 8y agoJust wanted to add my little app as it does all three, as well as habits. https://www.nominal.net https://www.nominal.net Let me know if you try it out and have any feedback, it is still pretty young.
- deepaksurti 8y agoOrg Mode in Spacemacs. Though I use agenda which is the passive form of reminders but works for my use case, if you need your org system to remind you; then this SO post [1] has some useful options, one among which is, on Emacs > 24, there is notifications! [1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3844/good-methods-for-setting-up-alarms-audio-visual-triggered-by-org-mode-events https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3844/good-methods-...