Do I know any #neurodivergent peeps who actually manage to use a notebook/planner consistently? Either digital or paper-based.
I cannot maintain one for the life of me even though I’ve tried every planner and app under the sun.
When I do use it, it does work. It helps me keep track of things and makes me feel less overwhelmed. I don’t feel like I’m spinning a bajillion plates at the same time.
But idk how to keep up with it or build that habit. So please share your secrets if you’ve managed to deal with this.
Becky
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Unknown parent • •Okay, now that I've thought fora minute, we use Kanboard, which also has a kandroid app between @silverwizard and I...
It is not nearly as intuitive and I don’t like it as much but it's FOSS and you have more control over the features, but the nicest feature (for me) is being able to auto populate the task again in x amount of time from either when you close the task or when it's due....
Not as easy or intuitive but if you're doing your own thing might be worth a shot?
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silverwizard
in reply to Becky • •My experience is that you want a very limited checklist apps with a checklist that you can easily make into text messages and check off. Whereas Kanboard is very heavy - but fairly easy for sharing, but requires a server.
There's a bunch of very lightweight things similar to Tasks in F-Droid but you don't have the open-source purity desire to test them. And you don't feel the need to sync to a laptop, since you use your laptop like once a month.
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Becky
in reply to silverwizard • •I have a hard time articulating what I like about tasks, and I found something that works and so it's stressful to search more, but absolutely you're right that I don’t have the open-source purity to go on a dive, which is something that I don’t really like about myself, but that's another topic
I guess I'll do my best to articulate in case it's useful to anyone else
Tasks
-I like that it doesn't delete tasks immediately when they're crossed off and when you do delete an item on accident, it's easy to get it back
-I like that you can text a list easily and simply to another person
-I like that it's got sections, and sections within sections, and sections within that if you need them and everything is colour coded with a lot of colour options
-I like that it shows you a list that shrinks nicely or shows up all the items that you've completed as crossed off, depending on the mood
-If you can autopopulate, I haven't figured it out, that does suck, that's my favourite feature of kanboard
Kanboard
-I like that you can autopopulate tasks
-I like that you can create different columns based on the task list which you can have for varying levels of completeness or urgency
-I like that it's opensource and it's easy enough to use
-Once a task is complete it's closed and gone, so that's probably my least favourite thing, but not a dealbreaker either
There might be more, I'm not entirely sure. I hope that helps with decision making
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Renoir dana
in reply to Shubheksha • • •I use outlook because it's always open and there on my work machine.
Without a calendar, I would fail every appointment.
Checking a calendar / planner / app is another action to be forgotten and missed.
I have my calendar always open, and it's always in the same place, right next to emails that I check frequently.
It has to be there so I see it several times a day and get reminders.
Shubheksha
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in reply to Shubheksha • • •I tried using todo lists, and didn't find that worked : it was another thing to check.
For day-to-day, the open windows on my desktop are my reminders/ ready list. Laptop stays on!
Apart from that, emails seems to work better : I send myself emails as reminders. This adds it to 'todo' (my inbox (doesn't make much sense, but works for me!)
Vashti
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