Very true. I have been helping others with the philosophy of managing, linking, and thinking in their own ways instead of always hoping that a tool being the solution. Once you are clear with the general idea of how things are, any appropriate tool should be enough or good enough that you are not lost when the tool is taken away.

For instance, I have been sent many a Mindmaps for the sake of the name exported from tools but just branches of terms which would have been better off as a list.

Recently, I have been teaching my daughter the idea and the art of taking notes. She is allowed to use any tools she like to try out. I have so far told her about Obsidian, VSCode, and Sublime Text. Of course, Apple Notes is there too.

How old is she? I've been considering teaching my 15 year old org-mode.

Sideline observer of Org-Mode, and like with TaskWarrior, they're amazing to use on a computer, but whilst there's been some development in the space of using it on phones, has anybody nailed it yet? Been a while since I last looked.

My big gripe is that most of my task management and notes are done via my phone or tablet like a clipboard, and management of plaintext on these kinds of devices tends to suck versus the UX of say Todoist with widgets to display tasks on a launcher. But the likes of Todoist are appalling feature-wise.

What I really want is the concept of preceding and blocked tasks, and to only be able to surface currently actionable tasks. AFAIK, TaskWarrior can do this, and IIRC, similar can be done with Org-Mode with TODO dependencies.

Unfortunately, I'm an Android user, but this does look fantastic.

She is 13.