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What Linux "Productivity" (ideally FOSS) tools do you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm in a bit of a productivity rut and whilst I suspect the issue is mainly between the keyboard and chair I'm also interested in what (FOSS) tools there are that people find effective.

One of my issues at the moment is cross managing different workstreams particularly with personal projects which are more in the "if I have time category".

I'm interested in anything that helps manage time or limit distractions or anything that makes it easier to keep track of progress/next steps for project when there may be a bit of a time gap between.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (4 children)

emacs org-mode

[–] ouch 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This is the way.

Nothing comes even close. I just wish there was a distributed / mobile-enabled way to use org-mode. I guess there exists some project, but running full emacs org-mode mobile is hardly usable.

[–] wigol 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I got acceptable results with org-roam cooperating with logseq. It took some fiddling with org IDs, config and a bit of elisp, but it's stable enough for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How did you handle note interlinking?

[–] wigol 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I forced logseq to use relative file links and skipped backlinking in org-roam. However, it looks like logseq now supports org-id links with backlinking. I might need another script to convert :).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Would you mind sharing your experience and/or the script? Would be nice for the community!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Need to use strokes to make gestures for cycling, todo cycling, etc and see how it works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I've recently started replacing most of my shell usage with org mode and babel, along with GitHub copilot and similar LLM backed tools it's like autocomplete on steroids

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I worry I'm not "hardcore" enough for emacs (I have tried in the past and now mostly use Vim). I will give it a try though as quite a few people recommend here!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

It takes a little bit of getting used to, but I found once limited myself to a few useful features I really started using it every day. For the most part I organize myself inside of Jira, but for tasks that I am currently thinking about I put them in a org-mode document. I have a few minor customizations, use a few hot keys, and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Highly recommend pairing this with David Allen's GTD and Rainer König's excellent course Getting yourself organized with Org-mode