I'll admit it: I'm a sucker for planning.
I know it's a kind of morbid psychosis, but it's true: Whatever the reason, I take a kind of perverse pleasure in planning my days and finding interesting new ways to juggle various tasks and obligations.
Hey, what if there was actually a good way to procrastinate? Doing Things, it's about planning how many things you are going to do!
Today's tool is to correct that mindset — to eliminate all the counterproductive complexity around planning and reduce it to the most focused and minimal possible form — which is an effective framework for organizing your to-do list. Any No frills, distractions or unnecessary layers.
Plus, as an added bonus, you'll get to enjoy the pure pleasure of thinking about it now, instead of actually tackling the actual task in the first place.
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Simplify planning
Most to-do apps are inherently complex – layers of lists, priorities, tags and a plethora of options and tweaks. Acquisition With all the AI-related fuss at the moment.
At the end of it all, you need to actually accomplish the items on your to-do list in order to keep it organized.
➜ Today's tool will change all that thinking: it's a super simple task planner with an incredibly awesome name. focus.txt.
⌚ It takes you 20 seconds The key is to understand it and start using it. that Simple:
- You can open the focus.txt website on any browser, on any device, with no downloads, no sign-ins, no hassle.
- Tasks that come to mind #task Section of the screen.
- Notes in your head #Memo the section above it.
Well, that's basically it.
If you're using a computer, you can use commands like Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, and Ctrl+U to apply basic text formatting (bold, italics, and underline respectively).
On Any On the device, you can type %date% To automatically insert the current date, %time% Automatically enter the current time, %check% Insert a check mark anywhere in the text.
These are the only “features” worth noting here. The whole point of focus.txt is to do not You have so many things to do that make your plans complicated, you just open your browser, type in the first thing that comes to mind, and get on with your day.
This site automatically stores your information in your browser. There is no syncing, no sign-in, no data collection. The list will reappear whenever you open the focus.txt page in the same browser.
If you would like to download and save the list, click[ダウンロード]Click the button, and it will save it as a simple plain text file called focus.txt, just like the name suggests.
This site works brilliantly as a custom new tab page for your browser. (You can set it as your default homepage in about 7 seconds on Chrome, Edge, Firefox or most other browsers, both mobile and non-mobile. and Desktop version.
But most of the time, it works by simply getting out of the way and letting you focus on what you actually need to do. item Instead of obsessing over organizing your to-do list list.
A novel concept, even for sentimental organizing fanatics like us, don't you think?
- Focus.txt is completely web-based, so all you need to do is open the site. Works on any browser, on any device.
- It's 100% free.
- And all information is stored locally only – no data collection, no accounts created, no privacy violations.
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