Ask HN: How do you plan and track your tasks?

Re:Ask HN: How do you plan and track your tasks? by jrib on Sunday March 13, 2022 @03:57PM (#30665109)

Plaintext works best for me.

One place is important like you said. But I've found it is helpful to have a distinction between high-level plan, like a feature roadmap for a product, and a focused plan for specific tasks you are working on NOW.

For personal projects, I have a TODO section in the README that looks something like this:

  [ ] Add support for...
  [ ] Do this next thing...

This tracks high-level tasks.

When I pick something to work on, it gets its own list:

  [ ] Figure out X API
  [ ] Add error handling
  [ ] etc.

In a team context, I've always used JIRA for the high-level tasks and when I start on a high-level task I break that down for myself into a plaintext list like above. I start my morning by revising that "focused" list.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you plan and track your tasks? by quietthrow on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:21PM (#30668204)

How does plain text remind you when you need to do something in the future or at a certain point.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you plan and track your tasks? by jrib on Monday March 14, 2022 @11:45AM (#30673793)

For items that must happen specific dates, it doesn't. I admit that. That's the role of a calendar with notifications.

But as far as doing things in the future but not at a specific time, reading the plaintext every morning for the focused tasks, or every week for the high-level roadmap, works for that.

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