📝 (Post) On Finding a To-Do Setup That Works

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+name = "Photography"
+weight = 6
+url = "https://marcelkapfer.photography"
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 about = "I do creative things."
-copyrighthtml = "2022 © Marcel Kapfer<br>Content licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0"
+copyrighthtml = "2023 © Marcel Kapfer<br>Content licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0"
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+* DONE On Finding a To-Do Setup That Works            :orgmode:gtd:tasks:pim:
+CLOSED: [2023-05-22 Mon 17:49]
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+:EXPORT_FILE_NAME: on-finding-a-to-do-setup-that-works
+:END:
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+- State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2023-05-22 Mon 17:49]
+:END:
+
+How many to-do apps have you already tried? All of them? Did you find one that "works" for you? No? Well, you're certainly not alone.
+
+** The Endless Search
+
+I tried a fair share of apps and setups but all of them seemed to fail sooner or later. Whether it was a plain paper notebook I kept in my pockets, a [[*Why I failed using Org-mode for tasks][custom Emacs Org-Mode setup]] or some apps like Nextcloud Tasks, Trello or Todoist. I discard each one of them after a while. And it took me some years to realize why and how to resolve this dilemma.
+
+In search of managing my life a bit better and handling tasks more proficiently, I read and worked through David Allens' book "Getting Things Done (GTD)" starting in January 2022 and implemented his methodology in Todoist about a year ago. And only after some time I slowly realized that I didn't stop using the app. And I'm still following the GTD methodology as closely as possible even after switching back to Emacs Org-Mode in December 2022 for obvious privacy concerns.
+
+** A Different Problem
+
+Perhaps the  "problem" was not all the apps and setups out there, but myself! Don't get me wrong, there are certainly some applications that are just not good or don't provide the features I truly need. But that's beside the point. Successfully /maintaining/ a to-do system is not determined by finding the right app that just magically works for you. No, it is a *state of mind*. Whether an app fits you or utterly fails comes only down to how you use it.
+
+So, if you're in the same place as I was and cannot find an app that "functions reliably" even after trying almost everything out there and wasting countless hours searching for programs and migrating between different setups, then it may quite possibly be, that you should *find a system* that suits you *first* and then search for a solution (whether digital or on paper doesn't matter) that supports you the most for the system that works for you.
+
+I'm not saying that GTD is necessarily the right methodology for you. It works for me but you very likely have different requirements and a different life than I and perhaps another system is better suited for you. Take some time to learn about the different ideas that are available and try them out. In the long run investing time in finding, learning and implementing a methodology that fits your life and your tasks and supports you is certainly worth it.
+
+Finally, keep in mind that a system does not maintain itself! It is mandatory that *you* invest time *regularly* into maintaining the system and keeping it alive and running! If you don't do this then you have yet another system and app to put on your "doesn't work for me" list. If you established a system that works for you then every minute and every hour you spent keeping your system up is time saved.
+
 * DONE Publishing my Emacs Configuration using Gitea Actions :@code:emacs:orgmode:cicd:pipelines:gitea:emacs:
 CLOSED: [2023-04-02 Sun 13:05]
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content-org/sites.org

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   :EXPORT_HUGO_MENU: :menu main :weight 4
   :END:
 
+** Software Projects
+
   Since I started to program in 2014 I started a few small software projects.
   Sadly over the last  years I had nearly no time to maintain any of them (except features and bugfixes I needed).
   However, I try to further maintain and develop them.
   You can find all of them at [[https://gitlab.com/mmk2410][GitLab]].
 
-** Debian packages and Ubuntu PPAs
+*** Debian packages and Ubuntu PPAs
 
    My unofficial Debian packages and the corresponding Ubuntu PPA for Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA are probably the most “famous” thing I have created.
    At least I get bug reports and merge requests when I do not update the packages fast enough.
@@ -269,7 +271,7 @@ If you would like to see some pictures or learn more about that, please visit my
    Therefore the quality of the packages is certainly not that good.
    There are---more or less---quite hacky.
 
-*** IntelliJ IDEA Community & Ultimate
+**** IntelliJ IDEA Community & Ultimate
 
     The community edition and the ultimate edition as well can be received from the Launchpad repository [[https://launchpad.net/~mmk2410/+archive/ubuntu/intellij-idea][ppa:mmk2410/intellij-idea]] which you can add on Ubuntu with
 
@@ -285,7 +287,7 @@ If you would like to see some pictures or learn more about that, please visit my
     - [[https://gitlab.com/mmk2410/intellij-idea-community/][IntelliJ IDEA Community repository]]
     - [[https://gitlab.com/mmk2410/intellij-idea-ultimate/][Intellij IDEA Ultimate repository]]
 
-*** Typefaces
+**** Typefaces
 
     Because I needed them, I packaged three typefaces for Debian.
     The packages should also work for Ubuntu but I don't provide an PPA for them.
@@ -296,7 +298,7 @@ If you would like to see some pictures or learn more about that, please visit my
     - *Hermit*: [[https://gitlab.com/mmk2410/fonts-hermit][GitLab]] [[https://git.mmk2410.org/deb/fonts-iosevka][Gitea]]
     - *Overpass*: [[https://git.mmk2410.org/deb/fonts-overpass][Gitea]]
 
-** Scorelib (inactive)
+*** Scorelib (inactive)
 
    Scorelib is a smaller project I started in 2015 for managing my collection music scores (the sheetpapers) with a database.
    Scorelib is a CLI program written in Python and using SQlite as a database.
@@ -308,13 +310,22 @@ If you would like to see some pictures or learn more about that, please visit my
    Theoretically I still have a need for such a software but practically time is missing to work on it.
    It is also possible that I will start working on it again but then possibly also with a completely different tech stack/goal.
 
-** Other
+*** Other
 
    Smaller scripts that aren't worth their own Git repository can be
    found at the [[https://gitlab.com/mmk2410/scirpts][scripts repo]].
 
-** Archived
-*** CyanogenMod Fonts (archived)
+** Other Projects
+
+*** Quotes Collection
+
+A [[/quotes][collection of quotes]] (mostly without comment) that I largely gathered during a project 365 in 2015. The pages are only available in German.
+
+** Archived Projects
+
+*** Software Projects
+
+**** CyanogenMod Fonts (archived)
 
     In early 2015 I created three font packages for the CyanogenMod
     Theme Chooser (Comfortaa, Fira Sans and Raleway) which were all
@@ -324,7 +335,7 @@ If you would like to see some pictures or learn more about that, please visit my
     packages. I /you/ are interested in helping with these projects,
     feel free to contact me at me(at)mmk2410(dot)org!
 
-*** Rangitaki (archived)
+**** Rangitaki (archived)
 
     The biggest project I've started is the Rangitaki blogging engine.
     A blogging engine (with a few CMS features) written in PHP and
@@ -333,7 +344,7 @@ If you would like to see some pictures or learn more about that, please visit my
 
     Read more about it at [[https://gitlab.com/mmk2410/rangitaki/wikis/home][GitLab]].
 
-*** writtenMorse (archived)
+**** writtenMorse (archived)
 
     writtenMorse was the first project I've started back in 2014. Its
     goal is it to provide a Morse code system for writing and reading
@@ -347,7 +358,7 @@ If you would like to see some pictures or learn more about that, please visit my
     More information can still be found at the corresponding [[https://gitlab.com/mmk2410/writtenmorse-specs/wikis/home][wiki
     page]].
 
-*** Other archived projects
+**** Other archived projects
 
     Beneath those projects there were also a few other ones worth
     mentioning like [[https://gitlab.com/mmk2410/filespread][Filespread]], an web app for sending a file to a
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   Here you can find some articles, concepts, manuscripts and similar
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   :PROPERTIES:
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  /These pages are only in German./

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