'I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File'

Posted by rafael costacurta
Aug 12, 2025 at 05:47 PM

I’ve tried almost all the apps mentioned in the blog post.

When I was full on in the Apple shiny walled garden, used Omnifocus with all my love.

Omni group make Great apps with rarely seen attention to details.

Long has gone these days and today I use Android, Windows, Mac, Linux and iPadOs, so I had to use a multi platform app.

Been using Todoist since then. It’s fine, it’s a well crafted app that has been constantly updated.

But as go deeper in the FOSS world, and my excitement with Linux has been growing, I wanted to go hardcore I mess as much as I could with open stantards, text files and the terminal.

I tried org mode a.k.a *god mode* for a while, but find a bit to overwhelming.

Today I settled with neovim + vimwiki combo in the pc and nextcloud notes on the android.

All that said,

It’s been fun… I feel slowed down with this setup, in a good way.

With all the modern apps was super easy to fill the inbox with a lot of info and tasks and alarms and etc… some times I got anxious with the idea of GTD/Clean my inbox, that was weeks long late to be processed.

So was the overdue tasks…

I know it’s probably my fault, not the app or the GTD system…

But Now every thing feels more intentional , more well though out…

I don’t expect to use this setup forever, but for now, it’s been fun an sane for me