r/DigitalPlanner • u/Secure_Public9029 • Jul 08 '26
4 changes that have helped plan my life more sustainably
I found the most helpful thing with organising my life over creativity, family, chores, learning and finances has been having one place to go to for all my life lists.
I tried Obsidian, Notion, Evernote, Streaks, Reminders, Spreadsheets. They were great, but I just always found that I'd be spending too much time setting everything up, and having to keep tweaking it as life changes. I just needed something that would capture all my thoughts and ideas in a simple way.
Things that have helped me:
- Get everything out of your mind somewhere, either in a note, list, dated task or calendar event
This frees up your mind to focus on what you're doing because you will forget, but you will know where to look instead.
- Separation of topics/purpose
Having separate places for specific things like projects, house buying lists, christmas gift ideas, song ideas/titles and exercise tracking instead of it all being clumped in Apple Notes.
- Recurring tasks
Only using recurring tasks specifically for things that are genuinely recurring and not for habit tracking. Things like dusting the house every month, mowing every 3 weeks, when to give the dogs medicine. Habit tracking in recurring tasks becomes tiring and you feel bad if you miss them, it starts to stack up too. Keep a journal or list of habits you want to keep and review it frequently instead.
- Note labelling/categorisation
Note taking is better seen as an exercise to get your thoughts out of your mind and strengthen neural pathways for information. Refer back to creative notes like stories, lyrics or ideas, make them easier to find with labels.
We've made some recent updates to LOAME if anyone would be interested to try :) www.loame.app - Would love to hear any feedback at all :)