Run a project without project software.
Goals, tasks, decisions and dates in one outline — and the to-dos also show up on the day you will do them.
A project doc in one place, a task board in another, decisions in a chat thread, the timeline in a spreadsheet. Nobody can find the current version, so someone makes a fifth copy.
- One page per project.Open the project line as a page. Put the checklist, notes, questions and timeline under it.
- Tick things off, watch them fade.Completed items get out of the way; show them again when you need the record.
- Today’s slice of the project.Put the checklist under today’s page too. It is the same item in both places.
- Dates without a chart.A milestone is a line with a date. It appears on that day’s page by itself.
The same checklist, under the project and under today.
The project keeps the plan. Today keeps what you are doing about it. When they need the same item, you do not copy it — you put the one item in both places.
⌘⇧M copies an item as a mirror; paste it anywhere. A diamond bullet marks it.
Decisions and files stay with the work.
Open questions get a line. The answer goes under it. The brief and the sketches sit next to the notes about them, not in a folder three clicks away.
Attach the brief under the note it belongs to; the text inside is searchable.
See what points where.
Link the go-live date to the checklist, the checklist to the open question, the question to the decision. Every item shows what links to it, with the path it lives under.
Type [[ to link to any item. Each item shows what links back to it.
One list, other jobs.
Plan your day
Tasks, meetings and notes on one page for today, with a timeline that shows the day you actually have.
See how →Keep a journal
One shortcut, one line, done. Entries live next to your plans, not in an app you forget to open.
See how →Keep what you learn
Reading notes, research, screenshots and PDFs in one searchable list, linked the way you think.
See how →Everything on your mind, in one place.
Open Nested List, type your first line, and put the next thought under it. That is the whole setup.