I’m writing my PhD and sometimes feel like I’m losing my mind trying to balance home and work tasks, thesis tasks, personal and household habits, and potential connecting these to notes. I really struggle if everything isn’t in one place I can’t keep track of it.
I’ve been using Beaverhabits for habits, Baikal for Caldav connected to iPhone reminders and Thunderbird tasks, and memos and trilium for notes. I also, use a notebook for daily stuff and move it over to digital if it isn’t finished by 5.
Any recommendations? I would really appreciate it. I enjoy thinking about how to do and manage work efficiently but also need a firm system.
I mean if you want one app to rule them all, there’s only ever been one option… Emacs. It can be your text editor, task organizer, calendar… operating system. If by work efficiently you mean endlessly feel the need to make tweaks and modifications, and maybe learn an entire idiosyncratic language while you’re at it… Emacs. Praise be.
You mean Vim?
So I’ve got a nextcloud instance set up, and using the notes, tasks and calendar apps. There’s a note app for mobile already, for tasks I use Tasks.org and for my calendar I use fossify calendar. The last two I sync using DAVx5. It’s pretty nice honestly, and all of these apps have widget options which is amazing and really helpful for my productivity setup. Are there better apps or software out there? Probably, but for me simplicity is best.
For you, I’d recommend trying Logseq. It wasn’t for me, but feature-wise it might be what you’re looking for.
Failing that, using todo.txt for your notes might work better. However, the only usable app on iOS for this is SwiftoDo, and you would need to figure out how to sync the file yourself.
Here's my own stack
- For notes, I just have a folder full of Markdown files I edit using QOwnNotes and Micro on desktop and Markor on mobile, synchronised with Syncthing.
- On iOS, you can use Möbius Sync for Syncthing, and the least crap Markdown editors I found were MDNotes and Kodex.
- For to-do lists, I use a todo.txt (also on Syncthing), which I edit with Sleek on desktop and Markor on mobile.
- For calendars, I use Posteo (an email provider, with contacts and calendars). The calendars are synchronised using CalDAV, wherein I access them with Thunderbird on desktop and DAVx⁵/Fossify Calendar on mobile.
- CalDAV and CardDAV, as you know, are compatible with iOS out-of-the-box.
- For notes, I just have a folder full of Markdown files I edit using QOwnNotes and Micro on desktop and Markor on mobile, synchronised with Syncthing.
I use Joplin for note taking.
@ocean I have used my brain for that on occassion. Definitely recommended.
You really sound like the taget for Logseq
Thanks! Could you expand?
You can write anything in the daily notepad and link it to any concept or page anywhere, and have backlinks, and it builds a graph of all of this. It can handle TODOs as well
How can you sync it though? I am running Linux and iPhone. Only paid sync?
You can sync using syncthing or anything else or use the paid sync feature
@ocean @seliaste
You can use Syncthing, FolderSync… even the monster Dropbox… What I use is Filen, but you have to manually download the folder for Android. This is not a big problem for me, though, because I’m mostly a PC user 💻️ I might look for other options in the future, but I’m OK now.
💡 Ah, and not to forget: You could use Logseq’s sync if you like it in order to support the project (I personally enjoy it a lot, it helps me very much with learning, and it’s not so hard to learn how to use it if what you want is not highly advanced text formatting)I think zero of those options work for iPhone sadly… I do see the paid but worried about security
@ocean Plus, you can search for alternative apps for syncing, this is what I did too
