My life is pretty disorganized with stuff at school, work, and extracurriculars. For a few months now I’ve been encouraged to get a planner instead of keeping it all in my head. Now don’t get me wrong, I love taking physical notes and doing homework on paper with my nice pens and such. However, I do need a planner that syncs from my phone, laptop, and desktop.
I’ve been scouring for an open source solution to all this and a few months ago, I found Super Productivity. It had pretty much all of what I needed, places to put down tasks, a pomodoro timer, clients for desktop and mobile, and a place to see my progress. I didn’t use its syncing features though, because, it only allows dropbox, webdav, and local file sync. I thought it was pretty incomplete.
Over the course of this week I realized that I had a NAS that I could access outside of home so I could sync everything with my synology drive folder, allowing uploading and downloading of the .json file across all my devices. This works extremely well and very seamlessly. Now, I have a completely open source solution that doesn’t really ping any servers apart from saving a .json file locally and then syncing to my server. It’s a dream come true and works works amazingly.
After seeing how much this piece of software has transformed my life, I am hoping to share this and hope you guys will start using it as well and support this dev. Planners usually cost me around $10 or so, I’ll probably give the dev at least that much once my paycheck rolls in.
In regards to productivity, you could also take a look at Get Things Done or Bullet Journal as time/task organization frameworks, or Zettelkasten if you need data/knowledge organization.
Are these cross platform and can they sync?
Those are philosophies more than software. There are open and proprietary apps for e.g. Bullet Journaling, but you can do it with pen and paper too.
Yeah, I tried to get into physical planners but I also need a pomodoro timer type of thing to keep me on track for short term goals as well. I’ll see if I can incorporate more physical planners though.
Getting things done is a method from David Allen, he wrote a book on it. It has been around forever and lots of people really like it. I listen to his audiobook every few years. Not really to fully adopt his method, but it will always inspire me to reset my chaos and find stricture again.
The audiobook is pretty easy to find if you want to buy it or torrent it.