The Traveler Techie

TickTick could have been the best app for managing one's life with ADHD, but my experience with the lack of quality control and customer support made me regret paying every year. The subscription ends this July, so I was still using it until it ends (I already cancelled the renewal). I was also hoping to use the last few months of my subscription to make tutorials about it (seeing how people struggle to use it, especially now as a lot of Todoist users are fleeing after the changes in the Google Calendar integration), but now I'm having second thoughts about making those tutorials, and when I list the bugs below, you'll understand why. Bare in mind that most of these bugs have been going on for years, and my support tickets are just sitting there unanswered. For reference, I've changed devices quite a bit during the duration of using TickTick (I've been using TickTick for many many years) so it's not a device issue. MacOS, iOS, Android, Windows, Linux, web versio...

Projects in a task manager. This is something that I see a lot of students and working professionals struggle with. I don't like the current dedicated project management tools that are out there. Too clunky, slow, bloated, complicated. Here's how I handled projects in TickTick. It will not work for every use case, but for mine, it worked splendidly.   A list of projects Make a list. You can call it "work", "school", "projects", anything you like. Group and Sort by Custom through the up/down arrows icon on the top right. Click the ... button on the top right to open up the menu, and click Add Section . The first section will be housing recurring tasks that will be showing up in your Today view. I named mine Routine . You will then make a section for each project you are actively working on (or if you're a student, for each subject or module of your current semester). This will house all the subject's / project's tasks and subtasks. Id...

It's not always necessary. Sometimes you can just stop doing the thing, deal with the withdrawal symptoms for a while, and it works itself out. But with Reddit it was different. My problem wasn't doomscrolling; I was actively engaging: A person would ask a question my brain would go "oh I know that one!" I would proceeed to answer that question the OP would thank me then someone out of nowhere, and sometimes after days, weeks, months and even years have passed, would reply with a very insulting response about how wrong I am, and how I should read this book, this research study, this YouTube video, this article, "this is not what [ the name of some influencer who doesn't even have a real job ] said"... then like an idiot, I would respond with something like "I need not do any of those things, because I'm talking from personal experience. The whole reason I was so excited to share is because this is an actual solution that has solved the same pro...

First, the No Surf subreddit's description, in case you're not familiar: Stop spending life on the net. NoSurf is a community of people who are focused on becoming more productive and wasting less time mindlessly surfing the internet. Okay. This so-called laser focused and productive community is actually all about making posts and giving advice about "how they got rid of social media"... in the /r/nosurf subreddit... while they're still on Reddit. Does Reddit not count as social media? And have you seen some of these people's profile and history? I thought I considered myself a very active Redditor, but they're on that platform as if it was oxygen. And actively engaging on all the wrong subreddits too! Subreddits I would never even dare step my foot into! Then you got the people who do count Reddit as social media, posting on Reddit about how toxic Reddit is and that you should delete the app and go outside... Meanwhile these same people who just gave yo...

It's okay to be a slow reader. It's okay not to finish all the books on your list at the span of your lifetime. It's also okay to read ancient, difficult books nobody's heard of and having to look up words at the dictionary all the time. What's not okay, is to rush the reading process just to be able to announce to the world "I've read 400 books in 6 months" but taking nothing of value from them, and worse -- applying none of it to improve your life. If even all you have learned in those 1357 pages of that one book from the 3 books you read in 5 years, was just one small sentence, that book was worth reading. And most of the times, summaries of books (whether AI or human-made) are not going to be enough to discover that sentence, let alone allow you to grasp its full meaning. Sometimes you need those 263 pages of detailed context leading up to that sentence, in order for that sentence to have a permanent impact on you and to give you strong enough reas...

After heaps of experience (and wasted time) with all sorts of productivity apps (Obsidian, Notion, Workflowy, Todoist, Google Tasks/Calendar/Keep, TickTick, Amazing Marvin, Joplin, Logseq, Dynalist, Habitica and more... oh I could go on and on), this is where my ADHD ended up with as a solution to ALL my problems. Well all my note taking and task management problems anyways. No more overwhelm, no more bugs, no more performance issues, no more cluttered UI, no more clunky UX, no more sync issues, no more data loss, no more worries about privacy and security, no more need to contact customer support, no more subscriptions to be paid, no more dealing with enshitification. This post is about the structure and workflow of my OBTF (One Big Text File). I'll get into more about it in future posts, such as how to sync with all my devices, what I do for automated encrypted backups, how I use it in conjuction with the bullet journal and more. But right now, we need to get to work. And here...

Workflowy turned out to be my dream app for all-in-one productivity and note-taking. I will be posting a series of walkthroughs on how I use Workflowy for everything, so stay tuned... or you know, subscribe to the newsletter found on the sidebar. Disclaimer: The content provided in this article is for informational purposes only. You are solely responsible for verifying the information as being appropriate for your personal use.