How to write a to-do list
There's no craft to it, and that's the good news. One line, your own words, a day attached, written down wherever you happen to be standing.
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There's no craft to it, and that's the good news. One line, your own words, a day attached, written down wherever you happen to be standing.
The search for a system usually starts the week after a dropped ball. But most of a system is rules, and rules are chores on a schedule.
The fresh template works for about four days. Then Thursday goes sideways, the rows go blank, and the pretty page starts judging you.
We make one of these, so you know where we stand. Here's the advice we'd give you anyway, starting with why every roundup tests the wrong morning.
Eighteen items on a Monday morning is optimism with bullet points. By Wednesday you have stopped believing the list, and that is how people quit.
"Tracker" is a status word, and status is almost always for somebody else. The tracking that helps you is much smaller than the software wants it to be.
Your reminders are firing. You just keep getting them at red lights and in meetings, where the only thing you can do is swipe them away.
All those projects inside projects, priority levels, and color-coded tags feel like control. But every hour you spend sorting your list is an hour you don't spend doing what's on it.