All the great task apps

Okay, so I use multiple task apps. My last two blog posts mentioned Productive and Streaks. I also use Wunderlist, and sometimes I use the iOS Reminders app and Cortana reminders on Windows for spur-of-the-moment stuff. It isn’t just that any one task dingus isn’t good enough to cover everything I like (though that’s true), but if I put everything in one basket, the basket seems daunting and I drop all of it. I don’t love any house enough to just live in one of them.

The basic system is that Productive is for daily habit tasks, like filling up the humidifier. If I don’t touch Productive all day because I didn’t need it, that’s fine. There’s nothing actually important in there. Streaks are aspirational goals, like writing in this blog. Wunderlist is for chores and things I share with my partner. Reminders are for when I need to pick something up when I’m near a drug store.

Anyway here’s some morning pages:

This goes in part 2 somewhere, when Hall is high.

“You guys are like, the breakfast club of misfit toys,” she said.

“That doesn’t even make sense. Those are two, like, incompatible references.” I said.

“Look, I’m not here to debate the merits of a clever high school nickname, but that’s what everyone thinks of you guys.”

“Well, both of those movies were super successful.”

“And full of dorks.”

“Yeah,” I said. “Why didn’t you just call us ‘full of dorks’?”

“Because that doesn’t make sense. You’re the dorks. You can’t also be full of dorks. And also, I didn’t come up with the phrase.”

“You totally did. You ruined my life.”

“My name is the chilling sound of your doom.”

“Mr Freeze?”

“Best Batman movie,” she said.

“You’re full of dorks,” I said.