I have, within the context of my job, things to do that will take various lengths of time and are of various priorities. If I get blocked on one it’d be useful to know what to switch to, and on.
I have, within the context of my personal life, things that I want to do that will take undetermined amounts of time and are of various priorities.
It’d also be nice to have a record to go back and reflect on when I did what. And it’d be nice to plan a little ahead so that I can decide what I hope to do next.
So… how do you do it? I am so bad at time management. Is there a useful software I can use (if so, is it foss)? Is there a way to keep consistent with my planner so that I don’t fall behind on managing my time management, without falling into the trap of spending much effort on creating a time management system that all my time is spent managing my time.
Send help :(
I use Trello for a lot of stuff. Shopping lists, to-do lists, keeping track of tasks needed for whatever home project I’m working on, and lately I’ve been doing it for work tasks since I’m juggling a lot of things with dependencies that come and go. Most of it relies on kanban boards, which basically means different columns and stuff in each. Work to-do list has a column for stuff I can/should be doing, stuff I’m blocked on, stuff that may need a little polishing but it’s nearly complete, and stuff that’s actually done (gives a little motivation). Shopping lists are separated by store. Stuff like that.
Unfortunately it’s one of the subscription cloud apps… But their free version is very usable and hasn’t been overly enshittified… Yet.