Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, manage time, etc.?

Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, man... by znpy on Saturday February 20, 2021 @07:11AM (#26203564)

For the tech stack: I use nextcloud on a physical machine at home, and a MediaWiki instance as a personal knowledge base.

On a goal and task management:

For tasks, I have a monthly Todo page on my wiki. I use nextcloud calendar provider, with connectors for thunderbird and Android.

For goal management: I learned to tackle a single "big thing" at the time. Right now, I'm dieting, and that's it. I've lost about 6.5kg so far (started at 66.5, 1.65m height). Before that there were things like buying my first apartment, getting RHEL certified, learning kubernetes, learning keepalived, learning django etc.

I have a list of vague things I'd like to do on my wiki, things like "learn German" or "graduate from university" (lol).

So when I'm done with something I look at that page and try and understand what challenge the most sense to take on right now.

The one thing I would like to stress is: whatever thing you adopt, it should be a low effort and a low friction thing. It must be an enabler technology, not an impediment.

Going extreme, for some people a paper notepad and a convention (like bullet journaling or something like that) is more than enough.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, man... by marmot777 on Sunday February 21, 2021 @01:41AM (#26211376)

Mediawiki. That’s a cool idea. How do you organize organize it and how much detail do you enter? For example, if you’re learning Django do you document what you’re doing or is the wiki more for tracking what you’re doing at a higher level?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you manage your life: set goals, plan, man... by ilia_lotov on Saturday February 20, 2021 @07:20AM (#26203614)

Thanks for sharing! Good point on being low- effort and friction. I cannot agree more, if I cannot imagine maintaining a habit for more than a year then there is no point in even starting.

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