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PTPL 132 · Trip template · Avoiding app lock-in

Ellane W
3 min readNov 25, 2024

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Simple to do lists for a happy day

This week I’m on one of my regular interstate trips to visit family, and loving how the simple lists I prepared earlier are making things easier.

This trip has a project page, linked to at the top of my OBTF. Once it’s over the link will be deleted, but the file will live on in the Short Trips section of my EDEX — my version of Johnny Decimal’s Life Admin system.

The project page for this trip follows a template with these headers:

  • Title: YYYY-MM-DD
  • Links to external files (created with Hookmark)
  • Tasks: Before leaving, While there
  • Travel details
  • Expenditure summary
  • Activities
  • Packing list
  • Lessons learned

Every evening I get out my paper notebook and write an achievable list of things to get done the next day. At the top of the list are my top two tasks: even if I get nothing else done, seeing ticks by those two items means I’ll end the day with a smile. Next on the list…

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Ellane W
Ellane W

Written by Ellane W

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans

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