• joshchandra
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      22 days ago

      What is the point of crossing stuff out as opposed to just deleting finished tasks? That’s what I do.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 days ago

        I like the archival aspect.
        If needed, I can reference older entries.

        I repurposed this handling as a makeshift parcel tracking note in Google Keep.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 days ago

        More satisfying and gives me a little more motivation to see the tasks I’ve already done.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 days ago

        I leave finished tasks in so I can see when I did things and refer to the links that I left myself.

        • joshchandra
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          12 days ago

          I guess I must have way more tasks than you, then, because I can’t be bothered with the past, haha; too much to do! No problem; to each their own.

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            I have a shell alias that opens a task file named YYYY-MM.md. This keeps the notes from getting too long. It has really helped me out in meetings where we need some kind of reference to what decisions were made or when something happened. So it serves as a work log and a task list.

            Splitting by month also helps me trim tasks from the list that were not completed but are no longer high priority. They just don’t get copied to the new list. I can still look back to see things I had aspired to but never did. Like “yes, you asked me to do that 3 months ago and then it was deprioritized.”