PLAIN TEXT; PAPER, LESS — PRODUCTIVITY DIGEST

PTPL 074: Drumroll…The One-Task-Per-File System Finally Works!

PLUS A pleasant plea to keep your tasks out of your calendar

Plain text, Paper, Less (PTPL) Productivity Digest, text-based image by Author

Welcome! I’m Ellane, and this is a once-a-week summary of things that are helping me to simplify and future-proof my digital-analog workflow.

For the love of productivity, please keep your tasks and events separate

Carl Pullein continues to share sensible, actionable productivity advice, this time about the difference between tasks and events and the importance of making a clear distinction between the two.

This is a topic I’d been thinking about before reading his article, so it was good to read another take on it.

At first I thought that in one sentence Carl had pulled the rug out from under apps like Agenda and NotePlan, who are built on the premise of combining one’s task list and calendar:

I can promise you that you do not want to be able to do that. And the reason why so few companies build apps that allow you to do this is because they are protecting you from yourself.