Forever seeking a system/tool/technology/philosophy that fits between day-to-day getting things done, and long term goal planning.
Day-to-day I use a bullet journal for both task management and habit tracking - I've been doing it for years and it works great for any task or project whose state can be easily captured, and works as well for tracking long term progress of particular projects/goals.
But it's a terrible medium for e.g. managing research where the structure is far less defined.
I feel that out there, somewhere, there is a lightweight project management philosophy that understands this particular niche.
Ideally it would allow me to structure a project such that I would be able to look at a single <thing> and understand where I was at the last time I was deep into the project.
Emphasizing that this is much more about context than the tasks themselves (I have no problem actually doing the tasks)
As an example: Over the last few years I have written an uncountable number of formal modelling tools - experimenting with various approaches, systems, forms of analysis etc.
I have a few ideas for a new tool I want to build.
I have lists of ideas, actions, research associated with the project, which I've put together over the last few months. And when I have time to work on it, those are useful in loading the context back into my brain.
But as it grows so does the time it takes to load...
And that creates a barrier to working on the project and limits the time I have to work on it.
To counter that I break off "Quick Win" and "Next Step" tasks for each project which are defined to be small enough that that can be tackled by my normal processes. But I can burn through those faster than I can define them - and then I'm back to the underlying problem of large context loading.
@sarahjamielewis If I understood your needs a tool I use may suit: MyLifeOrganized*. There isn't a Linux version but it runs perfectly with WINE. It's the only non-native app I use. I also use Obsidian, Joplin and Tiddlywiki for different things (more text based content, but adaptable) and suspect that Logseq, which I have gotten into, might be worthwhile, but MLO as afficionados call it is far ahead for Projects, Tasks, Goals etc w GTD and other approaches templated.
@sarahjamielewis MLO is from Ukraine. There are some blogposts about how they're coping (OK after initial difficulties).
There's a discussion group on Google Groups. I rarely refer to it but has advantage of nerd users and not too much traffic - - unlike Tiddlywiki group eg.
I run an always-on desktop version and sync w Wi-Fi instead of using cloud.
It's one of only two commercial apps I use bc unsurpassed in my experience (Beyond Compare is the other; Linux version was free w Windows).
@samueljohnson That looks interesting. I take it from the page/screenshots that you can't really use it in a group, right? There's no way to assign tasks to people?
@viraptor I once tried to get a group of 4 (incl me) to use it for some shared non-work related things, with file syncing via Dropbox. Too long ago to remember much but in that case the technology was less of an obstacle than ability of some to deal with something new. Haven't revisited since. (All 4 were using some shared accounts at the time; may have tried w persons as different devices; don't recall).
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