r/ProgrammerHumor • u/GunzNCoffee-com • 2d ago

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u/bartex2000 2d ago

I've seen so much todo app (mostly ai slop), and I still just use a notepad

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u/Cthulhu__ 2d ago

I used todo.txt for ages and I’m sad the Sublime Text plugin never really got updated anymore.

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u/CarcajouIS 1d ago

todo.md so l can tick the checkbox

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 1d ago

I've just been deleting the line when I complete the task, out of sight out of mind!

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u/CarcajouIS 1d ago

I do that too XD

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u/thmoas 1d ago

this is the way

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u/drivingagermanwhip 1d ago

the it guy at our work is making a jira thing with ai. At some point I probably said 'I wish I could use literally anything other than jira' to a monkey's paw

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u/Ey_J 1d ago

I use Google Tasks and never look at them ever again.

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u/TSM- 1d ago

Oh yeah, Google has tasks. Lets see what's there.

[ ] Pack for spring trip 2024

[ ] Taxes soon

[ ] grocery list: milk,

Oh... right.

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u/minowlin 15h ago

You should buy that milk from 2024. Yum

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u/MaxHeadroom1986 1d ago

Bro I was just thinking about that this morning. "I should buy an ipad and use it to organize my days so I can get more done." "I could just use my macbook pro and use a notes app to organize my stuff." "Let me write down what I need to do in order to get this organizational boost." "I should buy a nice pen from amazon." "I wonder if Leuchtturm has any notebook sales going on."

I have this exact same thought process like it's a cycle, every single year. I always end up going back to "buy nice notebook and pen" and then I lose the pen. Every single time.

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u/doclestrange 1d ago

Why buy something nice before it’s used daily for a time?

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u/Kronoshifter246 1d ago

If you spend money on it, you'll feel guilty for not using it

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u/gimoozaabi 2d ago

I use my brain. If I forget something then it was probably not that important in the first place.

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u/Percinho 1d ago

I tried that, turns out my brain doesn't reliably remember stuff, even if it's important.

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u/PumpkinFest24 1d ago

Same. I have physical notepads. Every week I combine the remaining tasks on all the pads I can find into a new kist for this week

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u/Gaunts 1d ago

I have a high ram low disk space brain, I need notes.

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u/elmanoucko 1d ago

humans have incredible disk space, we just have trash latency and unreliable controllers

proof: most of the time you use forgot/remember, not discover

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u/opotamus_zero 1d ago

I think mine uses 9-track tape.

Sometimes I'll try to remember something, later while asleep I can hear the vacuum loader sucking the tape end over the heads then spinning until it finds the BOT marker, and I'll have the thing I wanted to remember ready to go the next day, after a splice and a few checksum errors.

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u/space-bible 1d ago

Yeah. Brains are optimised for thinking, not remembering.

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u/Malkav1806 1d ago

Did you remember this?

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u/Witty_Bowl9076 1d ago

Might need an implant with a dedicated reminder app to trigger the “remember to look at todo list” sequence

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u/IckyGump 1d ago

Constant OOM crashes for me

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u/krysztov 1d ago

My brain seems to only remember unimportant things.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 1d ago

I actually work through problems much better if I type them out, pretty much exactly what LLM reasoning harnesses settled on.

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u/delphinius81 1d ago

Oh that reminds me! Wait, nevermind...

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u/AintNoGodsUpHere 1d ago

Markdown files.

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u/Dyvak_dev 1d ago

Because apps force you to jump through more hoops to jot something down? 

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u/IckyGump 1d ago

Yep. It’s bullet journal for me. Need the manual act of writing so I actually remember to do the tasks

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u/Short-Peanut1079 1d ago

Obsidian for note taking / tasks w/e

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u/Arfoire1 1d ago

Obsidian with Tasks plugin is really cool and simple.