Thank you for this article!
That's exactly what I did for my hobby project, share-links (a shaarli/pinboard clone in Django)!

Here's the bookmarklet section of the README: https://gitlab.com/sodimel/share-links#bookmarklets.

I also added an "autofill" feature, which will fire 2 requests (using js) in order to automatically get the title of the page and it's language.

That picture of the sheep looks a screenshot from Severance.

About three weeks back I started back in with Counterpart, which I thought the mechanics of the worlds was what I imagined The City and The City in my head as I read it, but lacking the crosshatching.

It took me about 2 episodes in season 2 to get realigned with the characters. I need to get back and finish it, as I enjoy it. I deeply agree with you about lack of clarity (which I don't remember having with the first season) as to which world things were happening in and the world the character was from in that world.

Photo of those floorboards had me leap out of my feed reader to make a comment. Looks absolutely lovely!

By the way I struggled really hard with your captcha to post this comment 😂

Excellent use of the word "palaver". I don't hear that one often in Canada.

Harlem Shuffle is great, and Crook Manifesto is even more so, although it might be good to wait a bit before reading.

As a many times relapsed Things user myself I have my current run incredibly whittled down.

My biggest problem was too many things going on at the same time, so I use kanban to limit the work-in-progress of ‘projects’. The columns are the areas “Now/Next/Later” used to divide the projects.

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There are also lots of tasks that aren't in a project but most of them aren't very important (or they would be in a project) and I try to keep them tangible and short.

Housekeeping related stuff goes to Reminders so that my wife and I are on the same page. And at work I use Obsidian Tasks which I agree isn't very nice but having everything together in its own separate area is pretty useful.

I still use Trello for work - although it is now Atlassianed thankfully they have left it alone, so on the free plan Trello is a great tool.

I make sure whenever they send me a survey about how I’m finding Trello and what features I’d like to see, to say “leave it alone, you don’t need to do anything, it’s fine as it is”.

Oh, thank you Tom, that's very interesting, and what a coincidence they've just launched deadlines. And I either overlooked, or forgot about, the "Board" view in Todoist. The company does sound good too, which is a bonus. I'll definitely give it another try shortly.

Six week chunks do sound good – I'll bear that in mind if I find quarters get a bit too "baggy" and unwieldy. I hope it works out well for you and you have a great 2025.

Hi Phil, I've just been through almost the exact same process and ended up switching back to Todoist.

Eight years ago I switched from Todoist to Things as I like the 'pay once' app model. I also have a fondness for 'old' Trello for all the reasons you mention about Kanban boards.

Todoist does now have your two essential features:

- Repeat x time after the complete date with 'every!' - (note the explanation mark) expand the section 'Original Date or Completion' on this page for more details: todoist.com/help/artic…
- A couple of days ago they launched deadlines: todoist.com/help/artic…

Deadlines are only available on the paid plan though.

Other reasons I like Todoist include:

- very fast and responsive app
- excellent support for Kanban boards
- the recently launched calendar views (paid plan only) that let you see what coming up in calendar view: todoist.com/help/artic…
- well run company that's not VC funded and looks to be around for the long haul (See the founder Amir's various posts around the web e.g. x.com/amix3k/status/13…).

All of that makes me sound like I'm a bit _too_ enthusiastic about Todoist, but I don't have any affiliation and I would prefer a 'pay once' model. But I do understand why a subscription makes a lot more sense for the people making the software. (That said you can get a long way with their free plan if you didn't need deadlines.)

I nearly commented on your 'Quarters' post. I've decided to split this year up into six week chunks (inspired by Basecamp's 'Shape Up' basecamp.com/shapeup). This mean I have eight lots of six weeks. After every two six week chunks, I have a week off to reflect (so four weeks 'off' in the year to make 52 weeks). I feel like six weeks is a better chunk of time for me to encourage me to get started earlier - I'm already wondering where most of this week has gone!

Wishing you a good and productive quarter / year / life. 🤗

Thanks Paul, I'll have a look. It seems similar in layout to Things, Godspeed, etc, in that it only shows once list at a time. Which makes sense for a lot of uses really, but I'd like to find some combination of Things-like and Kanban boards.

I use 2Do, which looks similar in complexity to Things, though not as 'pretty'. It has your two required features of separate start and due dates, and recurrence based on completion date. I don't know if it might be worth you browsing their documentation to see if you see any advantages in it.

They sell perpetual licences, not subscriptions, which is one of the things that attracted me to it.

I'm trying this (quarterly goals for personal/life stuff) for the first time this year too. I got the idea from an Ali Abdaal video (although it's probably been covered by most productivity bloggers/YouTubers).

What I found most interesting about his approach was how specific his goals were; they're basically SMART goals like the ones you're supposed to use at work, but applied to non-work objectives. Plus he's just using a Google Doc to track them and refer back to them (it shows up very briefly in the video).

It's only been a few days obviously, but so far I'm feeling pretty good about my quarterly goals. One of the benefits (for me) has definitely been knowing what I haven't chosen to focus on this quarter, and therefore what I can forget about for at least another three months.

I long ago unsubscribed from the Editions app because it became too useless. Good luck with whatever improvements they’re making now!

Not related to this particular post, but just to say I'm looking forward to your take on the forthcoming PDFing of the Guardian Editions app...

I'm glad someone else shared my annoyance at the orange and teal-ness of Ludwig. I had thought this trend was over long ago. I was also annoyed at the overuse of Beethoven themes in the incidental music. Thank you for letting me share my annoyances.

Thank you Phil, for writing such good words around this. Much love to you.

Well Done Phil.
It is very good for me , who has been on the other side of the fence as a Dr since I was 23 and hopefully was the communicator in the team, to learn what it feels like now for you.

Thank you for sharing. So sad and so full of love. Our thoughts are with you ❤️

Seconding everyone else thanking you for sharing this. The impressionistic brief style reminds me of my own frame-of-mind while dealing with my dad's illness and death in 2019, and dealing with the aftermath of his sudden passing. I felt stressed, but forced to be calm to deal with everything, and also found myself paying attention to random moments and holding on closely to them as a way of getting through it all.