Life these days can be very complicated, and many of us — I’d guess that most of us — are constantly looking for the best method to keep our lives in order. What do you need on your grocery list? When is that work project due, and who is working on it with you? A friend wants to do a movie-watching session, but is that the same day you promised your parents to help clean the garage? Which bills are due, and can you afford to pay them all? Where is that article about which masks to wear? And on and on.
So we decided to start off 2022 by asking the staff of The Verge what they use to keep track of all their appointments / tasks / projects / workflows. And it turned out that they use a variety of different apps or some fairly old-fashioned paper-and-pen solutions — or both.
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I do use a to-do app, but I keep it simple. Just lists of tasks.
Over the years, I find that every time I gave in to the temptation to set up filters and automations and what-nots that these apps provide, my system goes haywire.
In the end, what I need for myself is something simple to keep track of lists of tasks.
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