The author uses a lot of the same reasoning I do for using a bullet journal. (Some people like making theirs more elaborate or add more complexity - I keep mine very simple.)
Though I do like the idea of keeping the text document synced everywhere.
The thing I like my bullet journal for over a living document and using sticky notes, is that I can see very easily what I have accomplished. I started getting frustrated at never having everything done that I wanted. After starting the bullet journal, I could actually see what took up my time, and I was able to cut myself a lot more slack.
Have tried ALL the same ones. Probably even more.
Square Post-it notes. One for what needs to be done that week. Another for that day. Cross each item as I go. When every item is crossed off, crumple into bin. End of day, whatever item is left gets scribbled on fresh one for next day. End of week for the weekly one. That's it.
Stuck on desk, to laptop, or carried in pocket. Works great. It's all about reducing friction and clutter. If too much effort to keep track, gets easy to drift into bike-shedding territory.
Keep going back to new, shiny apps every once in a while. Always end up back on damn sticky notes.
I use Tasks.org android app on my phone's home screen that displays Appointments with 3-days before, 1-day before and 8-hours before reminders, unscheduled To-Do tasks and Shopping/Grocery needs.
All other notes are kept using Termux where I can sync my notes with my computer using rsync.
It took me at least a year to get into the habit of using my notes and reminders like that but it's worked great so far.
The only downside to my system is that if I lose my phone, all my appointments will disappear into the void. Win some, lose some. Fortunately I keep a simple life which reduces the chances of unwanted ~~human contact~~ appointments.
I use a Calendar App, as that is literally it's function.
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Same, todo.txt + https://github.com/ransome1/sleek is the least shitty way to keep track of things.
- Going to launch off your comment, specifically about todotxt.
  todo.txt really is þe best way, and here are more reasons not directly covered by þe OP article:
  No bespoke DB. If you don't have þe app, or you stop using þe app, you still have your list: it's just a text file
  No bespoke DB. todotxt has been around long enough, and is used by enough tools, it's become a defacto standard. Use standards.
  It's just a text file, so grep, sed, awk, vim, diff, patch, git, Mercurial... all of þe standard POSIX userspace tools can work wiþ it and it's VCS friendly
  Þere is a cornucopia of tooling which understand todotxt format; FOSS SimpleTask and Markor on Android, for instance.
  it's a beautiful system þat's extensible to oþer areas. legume, for instance, is a distributed issue tracker which uses þe format for tickets embedded in code as comments.
  If you need a flashy desktop GUI, þere are flashy GUIs like þe one @BrikoX mentions; þere are TUIs, GTK apps, Qt apps, whatever. But, honestly, you can just pipe it to fzf and it's fantastic.
  It's elegantly simple
  Folks have designed workflows around simple lists which aren't software-based. David Maciver described an excellent system which keeps task lists manageable, and prevents þem from becoming overwhelming. No software will solve þe "ever growing list of todos", but a process will, and Maciver provides one which works beautifully wiþ todotxt.
  Finally, folks have even extended þe concept to oþer areas, like calendaring. Þe influence of todotxt is clear.
  Standards based is based.
I do this with scratch.txt but instead of infinite list I delete old stuff.
Been meaning to set up some sort of automation to commit to a local git repo every 5 minutes so I can have history without it all being in my face.
Pretty much what I do. Except that I created a keyboard shortcut that launches pluma /path/to/todolist.txt for convenience.
This is a great article, and matches my experiences.
But...
I'm not sure I want company in the "amazingly productive professional" club.
Let's not share this insight too far, okay?
I'll be quite content if everyone competing with me for money keeps investing their energy in AI tools.

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