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On a given day, I have to manage:

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  • Three telephones that can ring
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  • Two telephones that can manage text messages
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  • Five separate chat programs
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  • (At least) Three separate computers that I actually use (not even counting servers)
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  • (At least) Three separate email accounts
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  • (At least) Five separate task trackers
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  • (At least) Three separate note apps (or physical notebooks with notes in them)
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How do I know what to do next? Let me check my task tracker. Oh wait… which one should I check first? Okay, I’ll check that one. But… what if I’m forgetting something important in the other four task trackers? I should go check.

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Actual footage of me finding my next task
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Hey this is an interesting news story that I’d like to forward to my wife. Let’s send it over to her quickly. Wait.. what’s the best way to send it? I found it on my laptop. She doesn’t use discord, or IRC, or steam chat, or mattermost. Her phone is an iphone, my PC is linux, so I can’t forward it from my laptop using iMessage. I could use google messenger, paired with my second android phone, to send it via google messages, but then she’s getting a text from my work number, which is confusing. I could email it, but that will take forever. I guess I’ll just send it over facebook messenger, and let Zuck see the meme.

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Which mail carrier did that go through again?
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Oh hey here’s a good idea I should write down for later. later arrives … Now where did I put that idea? I need to work on it some more. Did I put it in my Synology notes? In the notebook I keep in my breast pocket? In onenote? In my emacs org-mode that I am kinda half-assed using? In that random text file on my laptop that I forgot to sync somewhere else so I can reach it when I’m here at the coffee shop on my Android tablet? Well …. I guess that idea wasn’t that important anyway. I’m sure I’ll find it later.

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O Note, Where Art Thou?
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The fragmentation of the digital landscape, particularly my digital landscape, is absolutely out of control. My kingdom for a single tool for each of my central needs:

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  • Communication
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  • Planning
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  • Note taking
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I am officially on a quest to identify the proper single pane of glass for all of these items and to mercilessly eliminate the others from my life.

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I'm a grown ass man
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