Basically, yeah.

Although I use a notebook for most of my todos, anything more technical goes in a text file – though I made mine like:

# todo.md
- todos for website.one [here](./website.one.md)
- todos for website.two [here](./website.two.md)

# website.one.md
- [x] support mobile views
- [ ] migrate to self-hosted

Although my “todos” double as “ideas to try out” and “projects to spike” so I like this type of organization.

Actually speaking of pointless todo apps… I have this one I’ve been mulling over that basically takes a markdown list as input, does logical stuff to it, then outputs in the same format. I don’t know if that’s useful in any way, but I feel every nerd needs to reinvent the wheel at least once.

I also do something like this. As I get older, I find that I work less and less with fancy software and more and more with .txt and (more recently) .md files.

The section entitled “The Secret Sauce” is the real magic of this article.

Apps aren’t a problem, but they’re also not a guaranteed solution. If you don’t actually do what needs to be done, then it isn’t working.