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date: 2025-07-18
title: The John Carmack plan
permalink: /daily/2025/07/18/john-carmack-plan
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Earlier this year, I wrote about [text files being the simplest project management tool][0].
Whist watching a video by Nick Janetakis about his [notes application][1], I learned about a repository of [John Carmack's plain text notes][2].
These are a collection of plain text files that he wrote to plan and track his tasks.
He uses a simple format to represent different types of tasks.
- Lines without a prefix are to be done or in progress.
- Lines prefixed with `*` were completed that day.
- Lines prefixed with `+` were completed on a later day.
- Lines prefixed with `-` were decided against on a later day.
I love the simplicity of this system, and how easy it is to add new entries.
Plain text files are also easy to search with tools like `grep`.
To find all open tasks, you can run a command like `grep '^[^*+-]'`, and run similar commands to show different types of entries.
The simpler a system is to use, the more likely you are to stick with it.
This explains why there are 394 daily plan notes in that repository.
[0]: /daily/2025/01/03/todotxt
[1]: https://github.com/nickjj/notes
[2]: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive