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I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file


Alireza Bashiri August 11, 2025 I’ve tried them all. Notion, Todoist, Things 3, OmniFocus, Asana, Trello, Any.do, TickTick.

I’d devour blog posts about getting things done or spot a cool app and think “this is it, this will finally organize me.” I’d burn hours building the perfect system, creating categories, tags, projects, labels. AI helps but isn’t needed: With Cursor/Claude Code or Neovim + Supermaven, I can write my entire day’s schedule in 5 minutes. Dumping things onto paper so your brain can forget them Checking the list regularly Executing the tasks

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