- Calendar is for *generally* allocating blocks of time - todo lists are paper, disposable—for helping yourself keep straight what to do within those blocks or whatever - Reminders is literally for reminding myself of specific things that I know I'm going to need a reminder of - omnioutliner is for hierarchical notes of whatever kind is necessary I keep fooling myself about not doing my job. I keep fooling myself about buying magic things that are going to finalize and sum up my life and make everything fit into a perfect system and make everything hi tech and cool and magic, after just this one last purchase. it's like when you're repeatedly dozing off—each time you jolt awake, you think you know for real this time what the real awake world is. and then slowly and surely you drift back into illusion world again, and you don't even notice it seeming just as real again, but it does, every time, until you jolt back awake.... (2016)