The section entitled “The Secret Sauce” is the real magic of this article.

Apps aren’t a problem, but they’re also not a guaranteed solution. If you don’t actually do what needs to be done, then it isn’t working.

I use this one. Very handy http://todotxt.org/

I also do something like this. As I get older, I find that I work less and less with fancy software and more and more with .txt and (more recently) .md files.

Basically, yeah.

Although I use a notebook for most of my todos, anything more technical goes in a text file – though I made mine like:

# todo.md
- todos for website.one [here](./website.one.md)
- todos for website.two [here](./website.two.md)

# website.one.md
- [x] support mobile views
- [ ] migrate to self-hosted

Although my “todos” double as “ideas to try out” and “projects to spike” so I like this type of organization.

Actually speaking of pointless todo apps… I have this one I’ve been mulling over that basically takes a markdown list as input, does logical stuff to it, then outputs in the same format. I don’t know if that’s useful in any way, but I feel every nerd needs to reinvent the wheel at least once.

He didn’t try org-mode though. https://orgmode.org/