A nice little productivity hack for small teams: Todoque is a simple shorthand for writing down tasks, questions and ideas. Example:
1. Alice<Bob [Q]:How much are the tickets to the Opera? [A] They are $200 and you need to book by tuesday.
2. Mary<Alice [T]:Ring the bank and arrange 4th mortgage.
3. Bob<Mary[T]: Can you see if you can unify the tribes of Afghanistan into a singular cohesive democratic body.
Q is for question, A for answer, T for task, I for idea, E for event. The “<” shows who assigned the item to whom. Resolved items are crossed out.
I can imagine this to be pretty useful in email and wikis. If used consistently, the items can be automatically parsed into summary lists. This also reminds me of the //TODO and //FIXME comments often seen in source code.
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