Capture should be easy
Here I refer to 'capture', the term from David Allen's Getting Things Done.
You may also know it from emacs, and org-mode's Capture buffer.
Capture is the act of catching your ideas and jotting them down somewhere. The goal is to get enough down that you can let your mind be free, resuming whatever activity you are in the middle of.
Once you've captured it, if you Trust your Inbox, you can completely let it go, and keep precious mental resources for the task at hand.
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When capture gets as easy as it should be (and remember, Capture should be easy ), you quickly have too many things captured.
Then, remember this: Delete things!
If you're capturing all the time, trust your delete-it gut. If it's important, it'll come back. The focus that comes from a reduced spread of todos will probably get you back to the item in question faster.
And don't forget that ideas are cheap, finishing is hard (and more important), and we want Less scope creep and more iterations.
Capture
- adding a wayward thought to an inbox
- supports staying focused on the current task
- requires a process for reviewing your inboxes trusting that process is important, otherwise you follow every rabbit hole
Comes from David Allen's Getting Things Done.
Emacs 's org-mode supports capture from anywhere.
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Yodo is a project I've been working on for a few months, but have thought about for years.
It's a project management tool for developers, writers, todo-list fanatics.
It helps me run pomodoros and prioritize todos across projects.
It's focuses are:
- Wide net for easy capture
- inbox processing
- daily planning
It is influenced heavily by:
- emacs
- org-mode
- Getting Things Done
- journaling every day
For the intro demo pitch and latest feature summary, see: Yodo, the Pitch.