As Canadian I want to love Memento: https://www.getmemento.ca – as software developer I will note that this hasn’t had a real update in 2yrs. It might be abandonware.
No problem. Here’s my Obsidian Quick Capture shortcut (which I’m sure is a Frankenstein version of various other people’s shortcuts!)
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/f7bbd41121394b679a168d88ef168c8b
It will need some adjustment in the last block to use the path of your daily note folder and the file path of today’s daily note (I have mine formatted as “2024-05-28 Tuesday.md”. I also prepend new tasks with an #inbox tag so I can find them later.
The shortcut works on both iPhone and Mac, although you might need different shortcuts if the path between devices is different or get sophisticated by detecting the device and setting up the path. I personally don’t now use it on the Mac, preferring to use QuickAdd and global hotkeys as Obsidian is always open there.
A couple of other things to note… The daily note must actually exist (as I’ve written the shortcut) before you can append to it. If you use Obsidian Sync, anything you capture on iOS won’t sync to your other devices until you actually open Obsidian and allow it to sync. With iCloud it will sync in the background - the joy of being given Apple privileges!
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That’s my experience too. The only time I get a delay is if I’m on my iPad and Obsidian hasn’t been open for a few days, in which case it takes a little while to catch up. Even then, the smart merge works well if I make changes to a file on two devices.
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Not exactly abandoware, I see the latest iOS update was three months ago (a crash fix) with a minor feature update regarding widgets a year ago.
I believe the thing with these apps that use Reminders as a backend for tasks is that in order to push new features they depend on Apple updating the framework itself, otherwise there is not much they can do by themselves without investing a lot of effort. One example would be the possibility of having arbitrarily nested folders.
I see that view but I standby my view that there is such a thing of too much customization and features. Its human nature to want to be able to turn every knob and flip every switch. When software doesn’t have enough constraints it exploits this in a negative way.
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I made it through school, and another decade in business, with reminders/tasks written on paper. Before I saw my first IBM PC.
You are correct, procrastination can defeat any technology.
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As many people today still do.
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One of the senior executives at my last company used a spiral bound paper calendar. I have no ideal if he also had a digital one or what he used for tasks/reminders.
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This has been said and done before, over a year ago I did a tongue in cheek thread on Ugmonk: https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/analog-system-better-than-ugmonk/
Paper > Electronic Tools.
(Some of paying clients still use Index cards on a wall for software development)
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