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May be more trouble than you are worth when you try to organized fancy planners and complicated systems to get. But Linux users have a secret weapon to get organized is as easy as writing a text file: org-mode for GNU Emacs. It has the simplicity of the Taskpaper, but can expand, do much more. Why not spend some time this weekend, learn your way around org-mode and are prepared to work on Monday?
I know what you think - Emacs is just too complicated. As a VIM guy myself, I was not eager to jump into working with Emacs. But I heard virulent good things about org-mode for years and decided it was time to give it a whirl. It doesn't matter if you are a fan of Vim hard to do all your text editing in gedit or you prefer your editing in Nano. You can use side-by side org mode with your favorite editor and use simple Emacs to get organized.
If this sounds like a lot of work for a plain text TODO list, you're right. It would be a lot of work for only an only text-TODO list! But org-mode is a bit more, it simply start watching you. Carsten Dominik, org fashion developed, has this advice:
Try not "final" established task management system from the beginning. Your system should look like this because you have no idea. Not many TODO States established and logging first before you actually a sense of what you have is working flow. "Defining a context tag"
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