Personal Kanban 101

Re:Personal Kanban 101 by djsumdog on Monday July 08, 2019 @02:11AM (#20380281)

Astrid Tasks was the only one that really helped me get a lot of old tasks done, but Yahoo killed it. No to do list since really keeps me on task.

I've tried Habitica which attempts to gameify your tasks, but I dunno .. I just never got into it.

I have an OpenProject server running for myself, but I kinda forgot about it for a while and stopped checking in.

When I was a kid in the 90s, I found myself much more able to stay on tasks. Going into college, I could code for hours, building things, write things ... I don't even have kids/family as an adult, I just find my motivation waning.

I've taken sabbaticals in my life, which has helped me focus on some tasks and get some big things done, but even then there is diminishing return as I start to worry about money and look for work again: https://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/

I don't think a personal Kanban or anything else is a silver bullet solution. You have to hit a critical mass in the work you're trying to do, whether it's an open source project or creating videos or live-coding. I'm more impressed today by major YouTubers like 8-Bit Guy or Wendover Productions, and people like Drew DeVault who just write so much production ready stuff.

It's harder today because we have to fight greater distractions ... like browsing Hackernews when I really should try to get this regex working. :-P

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Re:Personal Kanban 101 by personjerry on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:11AM (#20380547)

I wanted to solve this problem for a while, but my learnings suggest that each person is so different it's hard to find products that generalize. What I'm building now is an app that logs over time many data points with tons of environment and personal status data, as well as how motivated you feel, so that it can process and find the reasons behind your personal motivation patterns so you can optimize them.

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Re:Personal Kanban 101 by wodenokoto on Monday July 08, 2019 @06:14AM (#20381400)

Habitica is really good for forming habits, but not really for completing your to-do lists.

It got me to floss everyday, which is actually a pretty big deal.

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Re:Personal Kanban 101 by manmademagic on Monday July 08, 2019 @07:17AM (#20381729)

The small incentive from gamification works surprisingly well, especially for things where it's hard to visualise the net gains (Oral care, cleaning, etc).

For tasks though, I personally use Todoist, which I've haphazardly rigged via IFTTT and Microsoft Flow to sync through to Habitica. That way I get the organisation of Todoist, but the incentives from Habitica.

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