I could use some ideas on how to better manage the following! I maintain one "master" todo list that I consult every morning to determine what todos I want to work on that day. Many of the todos are just plain text because there's not much detail I need written out (no dependencies that need to be …

I have a notebook with my immediate todos which I begin with a - so it is alphabetically at the top of my Joplin notebooks. If I were you, I'd break my todos into categories with a separate note for each group. Whether you do this by type or urgency would depend you your mind. That way the list is s…

I tried to use Joplin as a to-do manager, but I found all the workarounds to be ugly, because there is no "to-do" view that gathers to-dos from all the pages and shows them to me, so in that way I have to keep a mental note about where my to-dos are for different projects and tasks. I am not a JS/we…

[image] SteveShank: f I were you, I'd break my todos into categories with a separate note for each group. Whether you do this by type or urgency would depend you your mind. That way the list is smaller because you'd only be looking at one section (Perhaps today or Work in house) at a time. Th…

[image] kartoo: I tried to use Joplin as a to-do manager, but I found all the workarounds to be ugly Yeah, workarounds add overhead. The more overhead, the more discipline/time/energy required to maintain the system. And then you're just a few unforeseen emergency todos away from system break…

[image] jb261: But as soon as I have these "leftover" todos, I no longer have an empty "Daily todo" list. After a few days, the "Daily todo" list is now full of "leftover" todos, and instead of being a handful of tasks I can complete in one day, the list is so long it would take a week. It oc…

Overall I must say, Joplin as a very well note organiser isnt that good a task-manager. Ad hoc lists, with checkboxes are okayish, but real taskmanagement is another league. Applies to all note-systems, specially for recurring tasks, because 'a note with tasks' differs from 'a task with a note'. P…

[image] jb261: So here's my hail Mary, or hail Amanda as it were, to see if you have any ideas. (Lol, this made me randomly understand the phrase "Hail Mary", ha, as in hailing a cab. :smiley: ) I am certainly not a todo guru, unless you count having tried every technique over the years, gra…

I will suggest using a "Notebook" with lots of "todo" type entries and install the Embed Search Plugin . You will still need to add the tasks in that specific notebook, but now you can filter it easily in any other note.

Maybe you could be interresting by this. [image] Share your task / todo workflows Lounge Hi there ! I propose to open a thread to try to gather discussions about task management in Joplin (todo, GTD, etc). Personally, I am currently working in a GTD logic with a "task" …

[image] joeldebruijn: Personally I really would like Joplin to be a good taskmanager, because of philosophy / commuinty etc. But I accept it isnt, for now. Hoping plugins will solve this tho. I also think it would be ideal if we could better manage our tasks in Joplin, especially when we wor…

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Maybe you could be interresting by this.

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Managing a daily/master todo list

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