What a simple task list still has to do
People searching for a simple task list are usually escaping a complicated one. Just don't run so far that you end up with a notepad that forgets everything.
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People searching for a simple task list are usually escaping a complicated one. Just don't run so far that you end up with a notepad that forgets everything.
Marking emails unread and starring the important ones is a to-do list. It's just the worst one you own.
By the second week, everything on the list is marked high. The flags didn't fail you. They never did what it felt like they were doing.
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.
There are a few hundred of them and they all look the same in the screenshots. The differences that show up in a screenshot are the ones that matter least.
The weekly review is the first ritual everybody quits, because somewhere along the way it turned into an hour of tidying up.
"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.
We sell one of these, so this isn't a neutral opinion. It's still the line we drew: writing something down and getting it back shouldn't cost money.
A calendar holds promises to be somewhere. A list holds promises to do something. Cram the second into the first and you spend the morning dragging blocks around.
A to-do list only works if you remember to open it, and eventually you stop. Your tasks should come find you instead.
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.