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Worked examples for planning tasks, writing useful notes, and returning to the work with less to reconstruct.
Behind the bylines ↗Your productivity system shouldn’t become another task
Audit the upkeep in your productivity system, remove unused fields and premature sorting, and test a simpler way to return to work after a busy week.
Task-based note-taking: follow a problem from question to resolution
Follow an illustrative login investigation through three versions of a working note, with a small starter template and guidance on when to create a follow-up task.
Task notes that make tomorrow easier: prepare a team meeting
Follow Maya from a bare meeting task to discussion notes, three subtasks, and a reusable product thought. Includes a small working-note template.
How to turn completed tasks into useful knowledge
Follow one email-provider decision from a rough completed task to a dated record, a topic tag, and a review six months later.
From research notes to a decision brief: a worked example
Work through an illustrative English-launch decision: frame the question, connect claims to sources, track missing evidence, and write a brief with clear limits.
Use MCP to continue work from your existing tasks and notes
Connect TodoNote to a compatible MCP client, find a launch task, read its notes, review a proposed next step, and verify an explicitly requested update.