Issue trackers are a godsend. If I couldn't write up the various ideas I have while working on other things, I'd never get anything done. Either I'd be flitting around to lower-prio tasks or I'd be constantly tripping over issues that I happened upon earlier or I'd straight up forget to do things.
TODO lists help, but I've never managed to consistently review and clear my TODO lists. That's more often where tasks go to die.
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@mzan maybe. in the past I read some summaries of GTD and I've figured out most of the tactical stuff just through working on actual problems with deadlines. the long term strategic stuff, where you're talking about life goals... yeah still working on that. tbh, I'm skeptical of pop psych claims that reading some book will get me to sort out my whole life though
> I'm skeptical of pop psych claims that reading some book will get me to sort out my whole life though
Yes I understand, but the book is well written, so if you like the idea, it is worth reading it, because it is inspirational.
Reading a summary is useful, but doing so you loose the "inspirational" part.
@2ck
So are issue trackers something you use on GitHub for the most part? Sorry if that's a stupid question, I know nothing about software engineering.
@PsychoCod3r on GitHub, yes, but also at work. at work it serves some of the same functions, although, since I'm doing less design and architecture at work, it's mostly writing up big reports. at work, the bigger advantage of our issue tracker is team coordination: I work with a relatively large team of folks in different subdisciplines (systems engineering, security, computer infrastructure) and we would be constantly creating ad-hoc systems of reference to identify work that needed to be done if we didn't use the tracker as a medium of communication.
@2ck
> Issue trackers are a godsend. If I couldn't write up the various ideas I have while working on other things, I'd never get anything done.
You should read Gettings Things Done (GTD): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done
> clear my TODO lists.
Many TODO are instead MAYBE.