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My productivity app for the past 12 years has been a single .txt file. Every night before I go to bed, I take all the items on my calendar for the next day and append it to the end of the text file as a daily todo list. Here's an example with names replaced so you can see what it looks like when I move a day's schedule from my calendar.

My productivity app is a single .txt file

Really awesome!  I actually have used a bullet-journal like text file, commited to Github to keep track of history.  Actually kind of nice as you can use “github.dev” to pretty much open it up anywhere from a browser if you need to

I’ve learned that the simple can make the difference

Very well done, as most people would say, simple is better. For me worked just fine until several yeas ago, when I struggled with monocromatic text then I switched to apps for ‘solve’ that.

For me too, it’s the same. I just open that in VS Code for quick search and little bit markup. That is the best productivity tool ever!