That one guy on this sub told me to ditch my task manager and use a plain text file

I laughed it off six months ago but now I'm down to a single .txt file with no bells and whistles and I actually finish more jobs per week than I did with Trello, has anyone else found less tech actually works better?

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faithpatel8d ago

Feel you on this one, seriously. I had a whole setup with tags and deadlines and it just turned into a hobby instead of a tool. Stripping it all away to a basic list made me actually do the work instead of just organizing it.

anthony_jackson318d ago

Same thing happened to me lol. I swapped out Todoist for Notepad about a year ago and my productivity actually went up. The biggest thing for me was realizing that all that time I spent organizing boards and color coding priorities was time I could have just been doing the work. Plain text forces you to be brutally simple. I keep one .txt file with just a list of tasks for the day and a second file for notes on ongoing projects. No dates, no labels, no tagging. If something doesn't get done it goes back on tomorrows list. The act of retyping it makes me think harder about whether I actually need to do it or not.

wadejenkins8d ago

Changed my mind completely after the same thing happened to me (I was a hardcore Notion believer before).