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Ask HN: What is your organization/note taking/brainstorming workflow?

1 points by mmanfrin ↗ HN
I am astoundingly disorganized and have somehow managed to get 10-15 years in to my career without seriously addressing it, but my lack of process is starting to cause problems doing work. I've tried Obsidian but I ended up with a giant mass of unorganized notes. I've thought about trying to use Notion but I feel I need to see others' workflows before trying my own.

What does your workflow look like?

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MemphisTrain
I have a couple of notes text files to write things I might want to copy later (ctrl +c). But I also have a simple todo webapp I made for myself, where I just write keywords as you can see: https://i.imgur.com/5ARJ1q5.jpeg
Dutchie987
For work I use a calendar (Outlook) as a todo list. A task gets added to a date and time in the future so I know I can't forget it. When the day comes, I either do the thing, or I postpone it to a later date. For clarity: I don't use the taskplanner, but add tasks as appointments in the calendar.

This solves, for me, the problem of picking the 'right' thing to do from my list. I just do the things for that day. Be flexible, when you have extra time you can pull things closer, when it's balls to the wall, just shift some tasks to a later date.

I've been doing this for about 25 years, it works for me, might work for others too.

edit: I don't do notes, as such. Never felt the need to write something down that I won't ever look at again anyway.

anh690136
I would recommend to try out some AI knowledge management app :) it reduces the need to be super organized, I'm building one name https://saner.ai/ if you are interested in checking out