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Office dwellers, what software/website or system do you use to keep track of tasks you need to do? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Polarion. Wouldn't recommend it but it's what my employer wants me to use.

For personal stuff, I use a private MediaWiki instance (same software that runs Wikipedia) as my external brain.

[–] Lemmy_2019@lemmy.one 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you expand on your wiki usage?

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 0 points 2 days ago

Sure. I use it as a structured place to keep notes on anything that may be important later, not specifically tasks:

Important people in my life (friends and family) with a short bio, where we met, favorite food, allergies, ideas what I could get them for their birthdays, links to their social media profiles, maybe a few photos.
Recipes from all kinds of sources. If they are from a video or one of those "scroll past three pages of sentimental nonsense" sites, I summarize them and translate them into German with metric units.
Lists with interesting links about 3D printing, software development and so on. Keeping these in a wiki instead of just my browser's bookmarks list allows me to better categorize them and add notes.
A list of open questions and project ideas that I can't research right now like "Where is the best place to get custom printed LEGO minifigs?" and "Why do the zfs drives in my home server sometimes have problems waking up from sleep?"
Lists of interesting products/books/movies/... that I might buy/read/watch/... at some point
Some writing stuff: D&D campaigns, short stories, diary-like entries
A list of all computers in my household with hardware specs, operating system and so on

All of those get put into categories and the categories are displayed on the main page via the categorytree plugin. The nice thing about having a wiki is that you have a lot of options for linking or embedding related content while still keeping it somewhat organized.