My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)

I am incredibly jealous of people for who this works for. Mine just become too unwieldy to manage or work with because they grow out in a crazy fashion.

My "productivity solution" is currently TriliumNotes with three work spaces as 1) Planner with sub notes for year, month, day 2) Brain Dump with subnotes for year and month 3) Projects with sub notes for each project. I manage tasks with Vikunja and then my time with Google Calendar.

It's an absolute mess, but it's the closest I've gotten to a solution that works the way my brain does.

Thank you for sharing. I feel similar to you; jealous this system works for others, sounds like a dream, but too overwhelming for me once it hits some point of no return. Your structure sounds interesting.

I'm genuinely curious how others do not get overwhelmed or sucked into yak-shaving some reorganization of a system like this.