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_innocent_ t1_jdhzvv7 wrote

Reply to comment by stealthdawg in LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

This is exactly what happened to me when I tried using this technique in the past. I love using my calendar, so I had the bright idea to merge my to-do list into my calendar so I could get more things done.

That was a terrible mistake lol. My calendar became cluttered and stressful/distracting to look at. I ended up ignoring my tasks and then almost missing actual deadline/events. After a couple weeks of this, I deleted all tasks except for repeating tasks and then using Microsoft To-Do.

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stealthdawg t1_jdhzf7f wrote

Reply to comment by ismaelvera in LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

more power to you if that's what works for you.

The GTD methodology separates these two things. Rather it opts for one bucket of 'next actions' that one is meant to use as their only source of "what do I do now." That can be refined with various contexts (location, time of day, etc), and then there is a separate activity meant to refresh new tasks onto the list based on incoming sources.

So in the case of GTD you'd just always have a todo list with you giving you those same pending tasks without having to port them over from day to day.

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hvdzasaur t1_jdhz62b wrote

Reply to comment by CorectHorseBtryStple in LPT: Running out of Google Drive/Gmail space? Use “older_than:6y” in the search bar and then mass delete. Use “larger:10m” to find every email larger than 10mb and then mass delete. by R961ROP

Haven't tried many, managed to get syncthing up and running, but i'm unhappy with some of the limitations, so I'm also looking for an alternative. It does what i need it to do (get stuff on my NAS), i just set up some batch script that does the sorting to proper directories afterwards.

Like a NAS is for sure more expensive than some google cloud storage, but having my own local network storage is just so versatile.

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purple_hamster66 t1_jdhz4od wrote

Reply to LPT: Running out of Google Drive/Gmail space? Use “older_than:6y” in the search bar and then mass delete. Use “larger:10m” to find every email larger than 10mb and then mass delete. by R961ROP

Google hates this trick: make a second gmail account and auto-forward your significant mail there (skip newsletters, broadcasts, etc). And delete mail with unneeded attachments, which is where I use most of my disk space. (“Sis, did you really need to send me FIVE vids of my nephew doing the Hokey Pokey?”). When all mail is completely forwarded, delete the original mail at will. When the new acct is full, create another account.

You can do this forever. Each account gets it’s own quota. You’ll have to recall which acct has which mail so name the accounts with the year you created it, ex, Harvey.Cohen.2021

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heartshapedpox t1_jdhy3ua wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

Don't underestimate the power of taking them regularly! When I'm not working I sometimes think, "meh, I don't need to focus today", but for brains like ours, they affect much more than that - they help with the whole range of executive function. 💛

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SnackThisWay t1_jdhwtq7 wrote

Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

LPT: you can import calendar events into outlook and Google calendar. At work I've got the same workflow for each project, and with some excel, I can generate an entire year of workflow calendar events with a few clicks.

For example, in Excel, you can subtract 7 from a date and it'll spit out the date a week prior. Then you just make columns for all the calendar fields to be imported and fill it out accordingly.

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Luke5119 t1_jdhvv40 wrote

Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

When I was getting started in my career, an older coworker on mine in his late 40's shared with me some tricks of the trade, and he said to me "My calendar is what I live and die by, and if you're like me and can't remember shit, use your calendar on your phone".

To this day, any and every appointment to the most mundane tasks, goes in my phone. It's helped me stay more organized, and saved my ass more times than I can count in terms of reminding me about appointments I would've otherwise totally forgotten about.

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ArchMob t1_jdhvp7v wrote

Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

I would recommend something I found even better: use Google reminders and the Google calendar widget on your home screen. The undone past reminders will stay on top in and below are future calendar events. The reminder will disappear only after you manually mark it as done. If I don't do the reminder at the actual time I had it in the calendar, it will still stay and visible until marked done

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calculuschild t1_jdhv4vj wrote

Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

Is there some app that combines a standard checklist and an hourly agenda? As in, I would like to be able to make a checklist, but give each item a duration, and then block them out into my calendar. Everything I find either uses fixed 30-minute blocks on the calendar (Google Tasks), or has no integration with a checklist at all. All of my tasks can be in a checklist, but not all of them necessarily fit onto a calendar or need to be scheduled right away, and having the two lists separated drives me crazy.

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