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todolist for leisure

 
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Ciao Ranchers,
I have zero time and eons of interest. Here is spoken a lot about hobbies

Once upon a time
When I was young, was going to the book shop asking to the owner about a subject I was curious and after he would go in the magic room, would bring me 3 books I could see 5 minutes on the sales counter table near to him, seeing the table of content, peeking in the pages without ruin the books, then would make my choice would pay what is today 20eu/25dollars and would be with my new friend in my hands for the next weeks page by page.  What an amazing experience, relaxing, exciting, darwinian significant

Today
I look for a guitar lesson, a chess opening,  a painting tutorial and log(n) other things on the internet and after I finish to see a video with that contents I see a lot of other suggestions and I have to open vim and/or other tool to put them in my to do list. I open a movie popular streaming service and i get dozens of movies, and tv series that take much more time than a movie and so 80 percent of my one hourish free per day I write todolist for things outside coding that i should do instead to relax and doing it

What I mean
I even tried to write todolist in mindmaps or my org mode to establish priorities but even the priorities are never ending
I think I should find with some meditation some calm and just enjoy the moment instead to be always projected to some thing to do in the future

Do you sympathize or is just me?
 
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Oh boy do I ever identify with this. Absolutely yes.

There is just so so so so so much stuff at our fingertips that I think "wouldn't it be cool to know/do/have/learn/watch/read that". But it's just too much. I've simply stopped giving a crap about most of the internet and try to get deeper enjoyment out of fewer things that I really like.
 
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I classify CodeRanch as one of those few things that I really like and the more I participate here the more enjoyment I get out of it. In fact, I consider being invited to join the Staff as a Bartender back in 2014 one of my most cherished achievements (outside of family and friends stuff that always come first). It is genuinely a "money can't buy" experience, and I mean that quite literally since to attempt to buy it guarantees exclusion forever.

But Staff or not, CodeRanch is a wonderful corner of the internet and as an added bonus I have made some real friends who I always try to meet in person whenever I'm passing through their town.

Bet you don't get that on StackOverflow
 
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If something piques my interest, I generally go to the Wikipedia to get a Big Picture idea. If it's interesting enough, I branch out from there. Of course in may case, I'm print-oriented, so in general YouTube is a "from there" of last recourse.

I have 3 to-do lists, not counting the one in my Evolution email client. Well, 4, counting Google Calendar for far-off dates.

The priority one is TaskWarrior, which allows arranging stuff by priority and age among other things. It's a command-line desktop app, although I set up a process that sends me an email copy of the list each morning.

The second one is Gnotes, which is a Linux (Gnome) "sticky note" program with hyperlinking. This one runs on the GUI desktop.

The final one is Joplin, which is similar to Evernote. It's first and foremost a note-taking/organizing app, but I have it synced between my desktop machine and various devices so unlike the other two, it travels with me both near and far. It's also hosted on my own server, so I don't have to keep "secrets" on someone else's machine.

And when I'm in a suitably perverse mood, I'll ignore all 3 and do what I please.  
 
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well regarding my to do list leisure(because have dozen of them) I have a trick really useful, as is leisure time, instead to go through the list and see only the first 200 items, I scroll the maps(freeplane) and pick up one item as 1200th or something, and also have another parallel map for leisure typologies so that if I first decide what I want to do, for instance a scientific documentary, a recipe, a psychological book, some music, and then from there have subtopics so that can do what i feel more good for my mood of the moment
 
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