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Looking for a project management tool

I’m looking for a self-hosted project management tool. But there is one twist. The project that I would want to manage is my life.

I’d like to be able to track and manage all the different aspects of my life—decisions, goals, and values.

A place where I could record things I want to do during the current year, things I want to happen within the next five years, and things I’d like to accomplish over my lifetime.

At the same time, I’d like help with everyday things I need to remember—a place where I can write down a task and forget it for a while, trusting the tool to make sure the reminder actually reaches me.

In everyday life, the same rules apply as in IT projects: you can’t have too many things in progress at the same time. The tool would also remind me of these constraints.

I’d also want visibility into the values behind my actions, decisions, and choices. Am I acting in line with my own values?

Just like in ‘real’ projects, people matter here too. The tool should, of course, support multiple users. People would share certain things with each other, but each would still be living their own life.

Very engineer-like approach to managing life :)

I’m quite sure someone has developed something along these lines. There’s probably no single, fully finished solution that covers all of this, but we’ll see. I’ll likely come back to this topic once I’ve made more progress with my research.