PLAIN TEXT; PAPER, LESS — PRODUCTIVITY DIGEST
PTPL 052: Simple Task Management Advice for People Who Can’t Stick to Their Lists
PLUS A bare bones time-line template for my Obsidian daily notes
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5 min readMay 15, 2023
Welcome to the Plain Text, Paper — Less Productivity Digest! I’m Ellane, and this is a once-a-week taster of the unusual, the helpful, and the delightfully mundane, as well as the next instalment in my quest to future proof and simplify my digital-analog workflow.
This week —
- To do apps and your brain — well-researched article link
- Healthy task management advice for people who can’t seem to stick to their lists
- Plain text accounting on hold — for now
- You won’t find a simpler plain text time-line than this one!
Productivity Tips and Inspiration
The complicated psychology of to do apps
Are to-do apps doing more harm than good? Clive Thompson’s WIRED article is a well-researched, fascinating insight into the way our brains cope with planning the stuff we have to get done.