![]() But now, suppose you switch the tablet back online and it connects to Dropbox. The changes are made and are synced, because the phone is online. Now suppose that, while the tablet is still offline, you use your phone to make even more changes. Those changes are made but not synced, because the tablet is offline. Now suppose you use the tablet (offline) to make a change to the file, say marking a task as complete and adding one or two new tasks. Before doing any editing, the most recently-synced version of todo.txt lives locally on both devices. Suppose the tablet is offline but the phone is online. Let's suppose you have a todo.txt file on Dropbox and are working with it on two devices, say a tablet and a phone. ![]() Importantly: If you are using todo.txt across multiple devices, Dropbox takes care of syncing this file. But ultimately it's just a text file that you just edit (using an app, a command line tool, or just a text editor). This file can be accessed in different ways and from different devices. The way todo.txt works is that there is a todo.txt file that contains all my tasks, and this file lives on Dropbox. This gets a little technical, so bear with me. The main reason I am migrating away from todo.txt is a serious issue with syncing the todo.txt file itself across different devices. I wanted to explain why, and discuss some things that I learned about GTD systems in the process. But in the end, I had some issues with todo.txt that made me rethink my choice, and I have decided to go back to using ToDoist. So I used todo.txt all summer long and my initial impressions of it were very positive. While it's not good to tinker with a GTD system that works - because you end up spending time thinking about the sytem itself rather than using the system to Get Things Done - I had a light summer, and so if I were going to experiment, this would be the time. So I switched to a purely text-based system using the todo.txt format that uses only plain text files. Briefly: My setup up to that point was to use ToDoist for all of my task lists, but I was beginning to be concerned about the control and flexibility that a proprietary system provided. Back in July, I reported on a switch I was making in the tools I use to implement Getting Things Done.
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