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Ask HN: How do you manage your life?

2 pointsby zabanaover 7 years ago
Do you have a process for managing your finances, health, fitness, learning new skills etc ?

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hoopladlerover 7 years ago
I&#x27;ve suffered under a complete allergy to any form of organization for my whole life, having almost no native abillity to form even the most basic habits, remember things, or plan ahead. By habits, I even mean things like smoking (which I did on and off, liked it, but found it challenging to keep cigarettes on my person). By memory problems, I mean I am completely incapable of remembering stuff like the pin number on my credit card, my phone number, and so on.<p>So, to cover these deficiencies, I&#x27;ve resorted to technology. I use:<p>- Taskwarrior. It&#x27;s a good todo list, fairly straightforward. I organize everything onto different projects.<p>- A python script that tells me what I&#x27;m supposed to be doing at any given time (it even asks taskwarrior if it has any todo items that are planned for the timeslot). It notifies me, and plays a sound every time I&#x27;m supposed to be doing something else, like eating lunch.<p>-Emacs org-mode. Just started with this. It&#x27;s pretty fun, and covers some of the gaps that the other two don&#x27;t fill.<p>I&#x27;m not the biggest fan of smartphones, since I inevitably either lose the charger, forget to charge it, or lose the phone - but I&#x27;m hoping that a cheap, long-battery life one will come out at some point.<p>With taskwarrior, I basically add items to any number of lists for different projects, like &#x27;household&#x27;, or &#x27;work&#x27;, or &#x27;hobby&#x27;, or &#x27;learning german&#x27;, and so on. Then I set out in my timetable how many hours per week I&#x27;m going to devote to each project. Then my computer tells me what I&#x27;m supposed to be doing at a given time. This is nice, because it means you can do something like devote 1hr per week to something like learning about vector calculus, and you don&#x27;t forget you meant to do it, then feel guilty after a month has passed.
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grawprogover 7 years ago
One day at a time.