My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file

• personal-kanban

  1 10 2.9

  :hourglass_flowing_sand: 看板 A simple text-based personal kanban system written in Markdown

Text works well for managing one's schedule.

Here is a simple system based on Markdown that I've been using for some time: https://github.com/YJPL/personal-kanban.

• sowhat

  13 53 0.0 JavaScript
  

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• CryptPad

  183 5,242 9.9 JavaScript

  Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

  

For anyone wanting a FOSS alternative, cryptpad [0] exists.

[0] https://cryptpad.fr/

• logseq

  545 29,916 9.9 Clojure

  A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

  

Just sharing this tool, logseq [1], that I learned about a couple of weeks ago. It traffics in plain text files and does graphically what an org-mode might do after a lot of work.

I figure more people should be aware of this open source tool I hope improves and becomes more robust.

[1]: https://logseq.com/

• rodo

  5 27 2.7 Ruby

  Rodo is a terminal-based todo manager written in Ruby

Definitely true, but sometimes the lack of sane tooling makes it harder to follow rituals. I used to use the same format as the OP in a text editor, but struggled with the daily grind of copying items around and carrying over todos from the last day. Paper is much better for this, but messy (even with scanning).

In the end I wrote a small tool to assist with starting each day with a blank journal and all remaining items from the last day. Syntax is primarily markdown.

https://github.com/coezbek/rodo

• orgdown

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I'm working on making org more portable (at least bring parts to iOS), via https://plainorg.com and flathabits.com.

Karl Voit is doing the hard work of rallying folks to promote org markup outside of Emacs and hopefully create a diverse ecosystem under the Orgdown proposal https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown

• todo

  1 0 10.0 Shell

  Discontinued Tools inspired by the late Randy Pausch to help keep me on-task (by nrr-deprecated)

  

Yay! Good to read validation after trying so many: wikis, org, TheBrain, Freemind, etc. It's like a return to the old .LOG in notepad trick.

After a score, I'm came to the same conclusion as the article; plain text just works. I log in vim using ISO 8601 date stamped records in the log format of (priority - datetime stamp - keywords/tag - content) inspired by Randy Pausch https://youtu.be/oTugjssqOT0 others noticed too: https://github.com/nrr-deprecated/todo

Sorting by date, priority or keyword keeps me on track and helps for quarterly summaries.

A simple bash loop runs annually to give me a fresh 365 dashboard of days but inserts are a datetime stamp command - keywords autocompleted - then actual typing the meat of the task/content

Because all text is in a single file, vim autocomplete saves typing as I use CamelCase for keywords; vim dict helps too.

Caveat: For enjoyment, I still use fountain pens and paper for a running top 3 priority and scribbling offline. Backup interop is via TiddlyWiki for reference archive and sync with a plain text Zettelkasten (heavy on vim gf, Rg, FZF and jq for TiddlyWiki json export)

Plain text is built to last.

• InfluxDB

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