Way too much politics in my RSS reader lately. I thought I was avoiding all this nonsense as a byproduct of avoiding social media.

There's no way to avoid everyone bitching without become a complete hermit.

Right now, that doesn't sound terrible.

Score one more for RSS & email.

I do miss Twitter for things like this but it's unhealthy for me and I question it's value as part of my life. Don't "@" me there. Email works.

Listening to young people talk about Snapchat is completely baffling. I. Just. Don't. Get. It.

2Doist. That's 2Do and Todoist. It's something, but I'm not sure what.

Bifurcation. It's a word I've never used while speaking, and to date have written it exactly once. Months of task management chaos where I spent more time deferring tasks than completing them had me searching for change.

After a fair bit of prodding, Tim talked me into trying a 2Do / Todoist combination. 2Doist. Here are my early thoughts on using Todoist for work tasks.

The good

• Todoist is a web service first and an app second. This is awesome.
• IFTTT / Zapier / Flow integration
• Natural language parsing
• Ability to email tasks with project and labels assigned
• Date and time stamped notes are great
• I can use my work task manager on my work PC

The Bad

• As promised, my brain is broken
• Actually using the apps is not a great experience
• No repeating projects
• Natural language parsing sometimes leads to unexpected task names and due times
• No concept of Start Dates¹
• The Outlook add-on creates links to email that sometimes just don't work, and I have no idea why. I have lost trust in this feature.
• The aforementioned Outlook email links do nothing on iOS.
• I can't paste a complete project into Todoist like I can in 2Do.
• Editing a task and editing a note are entirely separate functions
• No clear way to use the rickety templating system on iOS².

This article is short, but it took me a week to finish. When I started, I was keeping my mind open to 2Doist as a possible option. It took me until now to realize I hate this system.

I don't think it's the dual-system setup that I hate. I'm still theoretically open to that. It's definitely Todoist that is just not for me. So for now, 2Doist is dead, and everything is back in 2Do. Now excuse me; I have to go defer some tasks.

Ben Brooks is changing up his paywall. Instead of a time delay, there will now be members only content. On iPad productivity. It's as if he knows the secret to extracting money from my wallet.

Exclusive weekly content. I'll be writing a member-only post each week about iPad productivity and publish it on Monday. This is the biggest change as it will behind a paywall, and never not behind a paywall.

I wonder what we'll talk about at work today.

Clearly, I misunderstand some things.

No thanks, LastPass.

Who am I kidding? The internet has been terrible for a lot longer than a few months.

I look forward to the results of tonight for only one reason. As soon as Clinton wins by an absolute landslide¹, maybe the Internet can go back to being a semi-useful place. For months, it has been roughly 93% nonsense fear about a guy who was never going to win anyway.

Update 2016-11-09 06:49: Well; I couldn't have gotten that more wrong.