Portability and human readability in a normal text editor are huge plusses for me.
I mostly use paper notebooks, but when I need to keep track of todos over a long period of time for a specific thing, I like to have a text file located with that thing. With all of these cloud-based tools we now use, everything’s refactored to be organized based on tool, then project instead of project, then tool. I for one am starting to rethink this. Changing of tools or people, or simply passage of time inevitably loses information, or knowledge of where information was stored.
I could see myself using this format for simple tracking in a git repo where I don’t want to use GitHub or another similar tool. One use case would be getting things done in a JIRA/middle-management heavy organization.
Having the spec is then nice because anyone could use their preferred tool if they want to and one could easily check for open todos in a bunch of folders/repos.
I mostly use paper notebooks, but when I need to keep track of todos over a long period of time for a specific thing, I like to have a text file located with that thing. With all of these cloud-based tools we now use, everything’s refactored to be organized based on tool, then project instead of project, then tool. I for one am starting to rethink this. Changing of tools or people, or simply passage of time inevitably loses information, or knowledge of where information was stored.
I could see myself using this format for simple tracking in a git repo where I don’t want to use GitHub or another similar tool. One use case would be getting things done in a JIRA/middle-management heavy organization.
Having the spec is then nice because anyone could use their preferred tool if they want to and one could easily check for open todos in a bunch of folders/repos.