[styfle]

I used GitHub issues as a form of project management to plan my wedding many years ago.

My wife was skeptical at first, but the ability to add labels, search, etc made it really easy to work together and accomplish the tasked we needed in time for the wedding.

The hardest part was creating a bookmark that links directly to the issue tracker.

Oh, I’ve also used GitHub issues to organize all the boxes in my most recent move. I would create an issue and the description would list all the contents of a box. Then I would write the issue number on the box. After moving, I could search GitHub to find that one thing I was looking for and know what box it was in.

[paulryanrogers]

Why not just write what's in the box on the box?

[veleek]

Because you can’t search that without physically looking at each box. There could be a bunch odd reasons that many boxes remain unpacked; downsizing, temporary housing. It’d be nice to be able to finds the one thing you need (you could even label the issue with the box location!).

Anyway, a fun solution but I think it’s more effort than I would have been willing to put in even if I would have appreciated the outcome.

[sameerds]

Because searching for a thing across all issues is way faster than eyeballing the list written on each box?

[klez]

Out of curiosity, what other solutions did you explore and why were they lacking?

[ableal]

(Not OP)

I've used LibraryThing for book boxes. Using smallish boxes (30-40 paperbacks each) so that carrying them is not a backbreaker. Scan the ISBN barcodes with phone app, fix old ones/whatever on web app, tag with box number written on at least two sides. No problems found so far.

[sph]

Reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/1172/

This is a fun anecdote to share, but everywhere you can find people with absurd workflows that are better dealt with using proper tools. FWIW I used Org mode to organize a move to another country. I really cannot stand the idea of feeding my personal information to Microsoft.

[birn559]

Sounds to me like parent used a proper tool. It just happens to be very flexible. In general, the best tool is the one that you use and makes sense to you.

[INTPenis]

At my last job we almost used Gitlab for all our project management. The only thing that stopped us was not being able to use references between projects. It's very project focused, which is of course good enough for open source projects.

But at my current job Gitlab could easily take over Youtrack, already took over Upsource.

[davidgl]

Gitlab supports references between projects as well, we use it at work all the time.

[rzzzt]

I remember seeing this house renovation project on HN, but it is gone from GitHub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962518