Lately I've been obsessed with seeing how small of a device I can get a thing done on and then doing it on the smallest device. The thing that prompted me to do this is all of the old radio shows I listen to. They dreamed of being able to do the things on a watch in the 1930s. There are comics and radio shows from then that can back this up.

So for them I've been trying to get as many tasks to watch level as possible. It's fun. It's a great way to dig into the device and see what it can do. Searching for answers leads to rabbit holes where I find the things I didn't think of. If a thing can't be done on the watch, it gets bumped to phone then iPad/laptop.

There is a point to this besides having fun and learning the devices. Sometimes you are stuck somewhere. I always have paper/writing device. I always have the watch. I always have the phone. With the larger screens, it is between sometimes and never. Being able to chop through little tasks when I have energy to burn because there is a typhoon outside rules. So if I can shift the little things I can do to "watch and up" level or "phone and up" then I have some things to do.

I have noticed some things are easy to get myself to do on the watch and some take a lot of willpower. Listening to podcasts and music from it for example. At the beginning it was a lot quicker to pick up the phone or turn on sound from the laptop. That's just because I am not pro at the watch yet. Also the idea of listening to something on a tiny speaker when there is a little bigger speaker close was a thing. Do I really need to listen to someone talking about tech in full lush stereo all the time though?

Getting thoughts out of the head and into a list rules on the watch. With the new os update, the Notes app is so nice to have. For as much as I like Shortcuts, I need to revisit them on the watch. They were clunky at best for me earlier but I bet that is sorted out.

We have cracked the code on growing herbs on our veranda. Basil was no problem, and we can't keep up with our plants. Dill, on the other hand, was a struggle. It took a bunch of A/B testing to find the spot it likes. Once we found it, the plants went into overdrive. There was a perfect spot where it gets a morning dose of sun, then spends the rest of the day in the shade.

Dill is pretty expensive at our local supermarkets, so this rules. A little fresh dill on simple food wakes everything up. The same goes for a couple of basil leaves. Simple accents on simple food rule.

I am trying to apply this "perfect light" light plant lesson to my Reminders app and task system. I had sections set up by context (personal, work, band, etc.), and things weren't quite getting done smoothly. Tasks weren't getting the right light.

I changed the sections to what device I am on, and things went turbo. My devices are watch, phone, laptop, drums, home, and outside. Home and outside are a little bit more loose than the other, but they work for me.

This setup works for me because @watch clears out the sand-sized tasks. Then @phone clears out the gravel-sized ones. When I get to @laptop, the rock-sized tasks are more visible.

Is the sorting of tasks into where they can be done tedious? Yes, but I use sorting and tagging to review the task. Tags are my old context (personal, work, band, etc.). The tags are emojis, which make them really easy to spot.