Ask HN: What do you use for notes + reminders + tasks

Google Keep, here.

I use Zim wiki for notes, with a suitable SOP for making sure things float to the top when needed. I also have a script that crawls over the pages searching for "REMIND" lines, and sets reminders.

So in essence, Zim for notes, and a couple of scripts that reads the underlying pages and takes appropriate actions.

Heavily tailored to be exactly and only what I want, but easily extensible when needed.

On iOS, Streaks for daily habit forming and Due for a to-do list with advanced recurrence rules and nlp for interpreting the timeframe when capturing to-do items. Use org-mode on spacemacs/emacs if you want a feature rich task planner and note taker.

Notion does what you want, and it’s not that complicated.

In notion type “/todo” for a todo list, “/page” for a sub page, and “@remind <date/time>” for a reminder.

Orgmode. It’s awesome. Only problem is mobile support sucks. Beorg app is trying to change it but it’s UI is ugly AF. It could use some help by a UX specialist

My mind.

Notes:

Apple Notes - it's on every device I use and online, so it has the lowest friction. I use Apple Notes for grocery lists (using checkboxes), semi-permanent notes, and sometimes as an inbox of things to process later.

Task Management:

Things (https://culturedcode.com) using the basic GTD framework. I add things to the Inbox through the day to get them out of my head. In the morning and when taking a break from work, I process the Inbox into projects/areas as well as defer them (give them a date to start/do them). Every Sunday I do a review/braindump of projects or anything still open.

By the way, you can use this GTD method with any tool. I know people who do it with Apple Reminders.

One extra thing I do at the beginning of each day is pick 3 tasks I absolutely need to do by the end of the day - a successful day is when I do at least those 3. I got this idea from Chris Bailey's book "The Productivity Project".

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I don't keep "permanent" notes (book notes, personal wiki, etc.). I've tried before and I never looked at them again nor did they help my memory.

I've found Notion satisfactory for notes, kanban boards, and simply having all things in one place. I use reminders in Slack as well.

Google keep Tags, reminders, checklists, etc

I don't know what you did to one note, it would have been awesome to use, if I had discovered it before all my classes were so math heavy they essentially required notes to be taken in LaTeX. Haven't had it crash on me yet.

For reminders and tasks: Google Keep from the Android phone and the Google Chrome extension.

For Notes: Boostnote plus Dropbox to share the notes between PCs. I used to be a user of Zim but at the time the lack of Vim keybindings it leds me to look other Notes tool.

Huge fan of notion. Although I understand why you think its too complicated, I think it will without a doubt do what you need entirely.

THINGS!

Notes: Google Keep, with tags and sharing. Auto comes and syncs at every apple android web device, quick sync, minimalistic.

Google Keep for notes, recipes, shopping lists on my Ubuntu desktop and my Android phone.

Just wanted to add my little app as it does all three, as well as habits.

https://www.nominal.net

Let me know if you try it out and have any feedback, it is still pretty young.

Org Mode in Spacemacs. Though I use agenda which is the passive form of reminders but works for my use case, if you need your org system to remind you; then this SO post [1] has some useful options, one among which is, on Emacs > 24, there is notifications!

[1] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3844/good-methods-...