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The TODO List

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A comic strip in three panels of Pepper&Carrot, colored and digitally painted.

Panel 1:
Large shot on the back of Pepper, she stands in front of a black board, a stick of white chalk in her hand. She has a proud pose because she filled the black board with many line of TODO. Every items are visible by their square boxes ready to check when task will be complete. The board has a large title: "TODO LIST FOR A FRESH START TO A NEW YEAR!". Carrot look at the scene, curious about the board.

Panel 2:
Close-up on Pepper's face, she is full of hope and good energy. She says with enthusiasm: "I'm sure this can all be done in a week!"

Panel 3:
Narrator: "Two weeks later..."
A wide view on Pepper's Room, she decided to break the board with an axe, she walk away the debris of the board, red of anger. She probably couldn't manage her TODO list after even two weeks and decided to destroy it out of frustration. Carrot is surprised at her reaction.

License: CC-By, attribution: David Revoy, English Proofreading: Craig Maloney.

[2023 Edit/Update] the Comic was originally published in half January 2022, and a remake was updated on January 2023 with this alt text, before reboosting it.
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Tiens, d'ailleurs, est-ce qu'il va y avoir une suite à la #ComicsBattle ? Sauf erreur de ma part, c'est @gee qui avait dessiné le dernier épisode, donc ce serait plutôt ton tour, mais j'ai pu louper quelque chose.

(Surtout ne vous mettez pas la pression, prenez votre temps et tout, mais c'était particulièrement cool, donc je demande pour savoir !)
Coucou, pas de soucis et oui, c'est gentil de s'en souvenir, la balle est belle et bien dans mon camps pour la suite 😉 Ca fait justement parti de mes TO-DO; C'est (doucement) en cours.

@gee
Maybe a kanban board wouldn't fare so badly. 🙂
J'ai ça. Mais avec une seule petite chose dans ma liste 😟
😉 Courage! 👍
your artwork is fire! 🥰
well, she at least had a plan.
My TODO list:
* Find all the forgotten TODO lists lost in the middle of tons of draft paper
* Give up all the items
* Make a new updated TODO list
* Forget to look at it
* Start again later
Ok, +1 item on my list 😂
- [ ] Read about Orgmode
hehe, so did you read about how to #orgmode in one year ? XD

I personnally did a lot and practiced enough for it to be a big game changer in my working and personal way to achieve things, find stuff, and sort my ideas
:bloblurk: Ooops, it was item 462 on my TODO, went to rank 987 in one year. 😆

Yes, I went to read quickly the website/doc/a ytb tutorial; but I can't wrap my brain around editor like Emacs.

My best TODO are on paper, on a A5 pad with 5mm grid; it's persistent, always on my desk, and I can't reduce or hide the file and pretend it doesn't exists. That works for me, I can color, draw on it, strike full line with passion when something is done, and collect them as diary. 😅
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yup, thats the most important, having a tool that works and that you really use daily.
some common problem with emacs is that it is really ugly by default and you have to change things to have it being used with regular shortcuts to copy and paste. I plan to publish something so that people do not have to learn so much things to use it as a task manager (i tried a lot of them, and still use paper for many things, something like for 30 years), with a beautiful interface just by launching a script or downloading an archive. But it is not yet done. That is a time investment which is worth it, just like migrating from adobe softwares to libre software. plain text is still alive after decades and changing computers.

i am still trying to use something libre in replacement of indesign to make fanzines, but #scribus is really hard. If you have tips around it i would love to share them 😀
Oh good for a user-friendly approach. 👍

About your fan-zine; except Scribus, I see only Libre Office Draw and recently Inkscape having text boxes, PDF export and multipages. Sometime, its enough for a small booklet to share on the web.

But Scribus will be the only one to have a complete CMYK workflow and will have more option for fonts and text (eg. chaining texts boxes together, making vector shapes and filling them with text, etc).
Sure be that way at times.
ho excellent... Est-ce qu'elle existe en français pour que je l'affiche au bureau ?
Merci ! Alors non malheuresement, les minis strips pour les médias sociaux sont directement fait en anglais . Mais la source est là: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc-src__2022-01-14_Strip-Comic_The-TODO-List_by-David-Revoy.html , et la font est là https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/fonts/-/blob/master/Latin/Lavi.ttf , ça demande donc un peu de bricolage sous Krita, mais faisable.
Mmm, je viens de penser pour le titre sur le tableau, ça risque d'être plus difficile. C'est presque fait main avec un pinceau pour dégrader une typo mise en perspective 😅 Du coup, difficilement faisable. Désolé.
je pensai surtout au dialogue, pour le tableau ça aurait été un plus mais ce n'est pas très important
@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org:blobcatlul:​ thats why i don't really do todo lists for new year anymore. it gets too expensive to buy a new blackboard every year