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May I recommend you check out Trello with the "Trello Card Repeater[0]." Trello without the repeater is a really powerful way to organize your life, turning your life into a series of big cards with tasks in it, that give you a sense of accomplishment when you close one.

You then tack on automatic cards which appear on a schedule (e.g. "take out the trash," "clean this," "fix that," etc) and you have a even more useful productivity tool. You could of course use a traditional digital calendar for these with reminders, but pop-up reminders can be distracting/overwhelming, or ignored. A Trello card can sit in a bucket waiting until you have time in your schedule.

You can then combine it with something like the Pomodoro Technique[1] to help with uncontrolled procrastination.

Best of luck!

PS - There are other competitors to Trello which offer a great list experience (e.g. KanBanFlow, Microsoft Planner, etc). They're all good. Unfortunately few offer the Card Repeater. KanBanFlow offers built in Pomodoro timers tied to particular cards which is a huge win (Trello has third party support for Pomodoro timers, but that doesn't follow you cross-device).

[0] https://blog.trello.com/trello-card-repeater
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Something actionable that will probably be useful for the folk here. Try and put together:

- a good summary of Getting Things Done (definitely not the whole book), like: https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/getting-things-done-en

- a Trello template for GTD, or whatever software you use, like: https://blog.trello.com/gtd-getting-things-done-maximizing-productivity-trello

- think of the whole thing as a set of interconnected OODA loops of different time scales

GTD and OODA actually go very well together - it explains for example why the easiest way for GTD to fail is to skip the weekly cleanup. You're just left with the daily loop, which is very much not enough. Proper GTD has organized loops up to around one year. It also a great way to force you to think on longer time scales, stuff like "what do I want to do the next 3 months?".

I encouraged our IT team to try Trello (now owned by the same company, Atlassian) which sports a JIRA integration[0]. Either due to the fundamental limitations of the integration or a botched setup, it's useless. There seems to be two copies of each ticket (one JIRA, one Trello) that can be in different states. It was not just another UI for the same underlying data.

I do hate JIRA. JIRA adds all the beauty of a government bureaucracy to what should be post-it note management. It's hard to overstate how demotivating JIRA is to my work and especially to my planning. Worse, everyone in the organization has to use it.

[0]: https://blog.trello.com/jira-trello-intregration

Most people - but there are plenty that don't or times when people don't. On planes for example (there are that have it but many that don't.) Do a search for "offline trello desktop" or look in the comment at https://blog.trello.com/trello-mobile-offline.

But I don't understand once you've solve the offline storage and syncing problems for one platform(sync/conflict resolution strategy), why it's so difficult on other platforms.

Thanks for the link - but I didn't see how it's anything like trello. I need something like kanban, but not specifically a kanban tool (trello is general is how you can use it - it doesn't have to be limited to workflows)

These sort of product celebrations (with users providing feedback on what the product means to them) are fantastic. As a user it's great to be able to see what a product means to others too and how they're using it. We had a similar page for a website we run and reading user feedback is so much fun, companies should do this sort of thing more often.

Trello only reached 500,000 users in July of this year, that's some spectacular growth: http://blog.trello.com/trello-is-now-500000-strong/