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Work-Todo. Personal Todos are managed by either bein iterative (thus repeating) tasks, or by calendar entries.
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So, really, by implementing a ToDo list you've just given yourself even more to do. Furthermore, if it maintains a hierarchy, which it must by definition of its very existence, well, To Do: see next paragraph.
I've a mental list of snarky remarks I could have put in this reply, but really, if you can't remember what it was on its own merit it probably wasn't that important, anyway.
Cheer yourself up: as these urgent tasks fade into oblivion, don't fret - they've just gone home quietly - without disturbing you. Now - just do likewise.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: I've a mental list of snarky remarks I could have put in this reply
And, thank you for not including them 
cheers, Bill
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I would imagine the frequency of your changing ToDo list management methods is directly proportional to the size of your ToDo list. 
If you haven't already, I would suggest installing Wife. Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list, and comes with a built in nagging reminder system.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I would suggest installing Wife.
This application is no longer being supported by its creator, and has a few serious bugs:
- Tends to chatter at high speeds
- No "mute" option
- Requires constant attention and maintenance
- If does not receive attention, may decide to spontaneously uninstall itself, trashing any Money files in the process
Marc Clifton wrote: Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list
According to the application's built-in priorities, not yours.
Marc Clifton wrote: comes with a built in nagging reminder system
Which cannot be disabled under any circumstances.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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Just realised all that also 100% true substituting 'Wife' with 'microsoft.'
So that's their business model! Wow! It's brilliant, full credit.
but I still refuse to embiggen their 'm'.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Marc Clifton wrote: I would suggest installing Wife. Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list, and comes with a built in nagging reminder system.
I think once you factor the total cost of ownership (TCO) over time ... where 'owner' refers to 'wife' and 'owned' refers to you ... and include children, housing, medical, day care, education, divorce, child-support, and psychiatric care ...
The TCO will be greater than the sum of all possible losses if you had never kept a to-do list, and never remembered important tasks.
cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Marc Clifton wrote: I would imagine the frequency of your changing ToDo list management methods is directly proportional to the size of your ToDo list.
loll it's like running to a new container when things overflows. If I had cleared things up on time, I think I'd have remained with just one. 
Marc Clifton wrote: If you haven't already, I would suggest installing Wife. Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list, and comes with a built in nagging reminder system.
The whole burden of introducing this ToDo "process" is to get rid of the gun pointed at my back by my wife. lol 60-70% tasks in someway related to my wife. Like Get this for the baby, Plan outing , Plan for her birthday. (compulsively)
Oh damn, it just strikes to me, her birthday is nearing pretty close. Need to enter this in ToDo first, Or get ready to die. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Vunic wrote: someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
I have also tried (in vain) many of the programs you mentioned. The best thing I have found so far is OneNote...it's actually the only thing I use it for.
Legal pads and scratch paper are gathered at the end of the day, or at the start of the next day and the interesting bits get updated, added, or marked as complete in OneNote.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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A high school classmate of mine has written an Android reminder type app, but I haven't gotten around to downloading it.
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Simply write a script, in your favourite scripting language of course, that converts all the To Dos into Ta Das.
Job done...
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I used a word doc for this, for a while, mainly because of the Shift+Alt+up/down functions, which are brilliant for prioritising/re-ordering items.
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It's the natural way to "age" your "to do" lists (forgetting them; losing them).
Otherwise, your lists would just keep getting longer.
(There's also that sense, that the moment you finish all your "to do" lists, you will die).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: (There's also that sense, that the moment you finish all your "to do" lists, you will die).
Now that was funny. 
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Read the book: Getting Things Done.
the reality is that we truly have "multiple" inboxes, and multiple ways to collect things to do.
As said elsewhere, you need a process. Set 2 goals:
1) To review your Todo list twice a day, morning and end of work day
2) To stick with it for 90 days (by which time, it will become a habit)
Trust me, I know the feeling. I use ActionOutline to take all of our meeting notes/action items, etc.
And my own Personal ToDo list. (I have 8 tabs for the 8 core clients). We also have to use Mantis for 2 clients, and Eclipse for 2 clients. Which means I will NEVER have a consolidated list.
After fighting to consolidate... Learning to accept that MY MASTER list is spread out. The only thing I need to review is the high-level. So in GTD words, each of these lists/systems becomes its own project (which it is), and I get to visit/manage them to make it work.
I am not perfect at this, but ACCEPTING this really reduced my stress. And now I even use Google Calendar Tasks for things like Grocery/Lowes lists, because the app links to my phone, and I check it when I go out...
So, along the path to have ONE LIST to rule them all... I learned one process to manage the lists made more sense. Especially when forced to use other peoples "lists"
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I would suggest using Asana, it's free for small teams.
I have slowly brought people into it over the last few years and they always are lukewarm to start off with but then when I come back to them a few weeks later it has become a part of their lives and they get it.
Can have multiple workspaces to keep home / work completely apart. Inside that you break it down into multiple projects, and inside that you can break that up with multiple headings. Its basically a todo list app but you can assign stuff for that day or a time in the future, add others in to follow the task, assign the task to others. The great thing about it is that while you get started you can use it just as a simple todo list and then expand out as you become more used to it.
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i use a google drive document. one called do. one called done.
It's gotta be a text file so there are no weird limits and copy/paste is easy.
just a text list SORTED BY PRIORITY. Easy/important stuff at the top.
So i can see/edit it on my phone at the grocery store or on my pc when I'm programming/watching tv.
If it's a big enough project, it get's it's own do file.
(my PianoCheetah app, building up a van for camping, building a bbq shack.)
Don't go more than 5 dos deep tho !
Anything somewhat significant that's completed gets written up in done (sorted by date newes stuff at top), and I give myself a reward for bein' awesome.
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If you're not missing anything important,there is no problem.
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And adopting a technique of Einstein's, don't fill your head with mundane matters you can always look up. That was his explanation fornotknowing his own phone number.
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Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Hi all,
Some questions:
1. Are you still using older versions of windows? if so... why?
2. Is still needed to upgrade first and then to perform a clean install to get win10 properly licensed?
3. Anyone with a Lenovo laptop that came licensed for windows 10 but with windows 7 installed that has upgraded the OS? how was the experience?
4. Is that true that the occupied space in the HDD is lower than the one used by Windows 7?
Thank you all!
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Joan M wrote: 1. Are you still using older versions of windows? if so... why?
Windows 10, like to stick to the latest OS (even if it isn't great).
Joan M wrote: 2. Is still needed to upgrade first and then to perform a clean install to get win10 properly licensed?
I did that in the past on my Dell Optiplex (desktop) which came with Windows 7 (and a license for Windows 8). I always prefer a clean install rather than an upgrade so I'd do it in any case.
Joan M wrote: 3. Anyone with a Lenovo laptop that came licensed for windows 10 but with windows 7 installed that has upgraded the OS? how was the experience?
I've got a couple of new(ish) Lenovo Thinkpads (E series) but they both came with Windows 10 pre-installed. I've re-installed my .NET one from scratch a couple of times, always been pretty quick and easy. The other one is on Ubuntu.
Joan M wrote: 4. Is that true that the occupied space in the HDD is lower than the one used by Windows 7?
It might be technically true, but you're not going to notice once you've got Visual Studio, Xamarin, Office, Adobe CC, JetBrains tools, SQL Server, etc installed. My Lenovo's SSD is 512GB, I have about 1GB 60GB of files, all my development applications installed and have about 280GB free.
[Edit] 1GB of file! I wish, it's about 60GB
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Thank you Brent!
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1) Never change a running system, especially not with Mickeysoft's bugware.
2) Who cares?
3) Sorry, no.
4) Probably. It's so busy talking to Redmond that it wastes no time to store anything locally.
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