Regarding the Post-It guy, I find people who first get into the productivity space make their lives overly complex with multiple lists, tags, etc., and then eventually retrench to something more simple. I am at the point now where I want to simply rely on one tag per note or task (e.g., finance, work, travel, etc.) and nothing more.
Something similar happened to me many years ago. What I didn't know at the time was that trying to simplify would one day become almost a mantra. The Timeline System I recently built is just the most recent iteration of that simplification game. However, something changed from that very first moment years ago. I now believe that one day, maybe in our lifetime, we'll be able to completely ignore organizing. The ultimate simplification will be some advanced AI doing the work of delivering exactly what we need when we ask for it.
Regarding the Post-It guy, I find people who first get into the productivity space make their lives overly complex with multiple lists, tags, etc., and then eventually retrench to something more simple. I am at the point now where I want to simply rely on one tag per note or task (e.g., finance, work, travel, etc.) and nothing more.
Something similar happened to me many years ago. What I didn't know at the time was that trying to simplify would one day become almost a mantra. The Timeline System I recently built is just the most recent iteration of that simplification game.
However, something changed from that very first moment years ago. I now believe that one day, maybe in our lifetime, we'll be able to completely ignore organizing. The ultimate simplification will be some advanced AI doing the work of delivering exactly what we need when we ask for it.
@@vladcampos I would be hesitant to give up so much control to a computer program.
Vlad Do you use Evernote as your main task app or just notes?
I don't use tasks that much, but the few I use are in Evernote.