You should check out bullet journaling. A lot of people use this for task tracking, habit forming, and life event recording, and have gotten a lot of emotional

You should check out bullet journaling. A lot of people use this for task tracking, habit forming, and life event recording, and have gotten a lot of emotional value out of the time and energy spent on these journals and what they contain. I'm not personally good at maintaining that level of attention consistently, but I did change how I track my life based on my bullet journal research. I have a notebook where I record my meetings for the day at the top, and all my tasks. I usually end up taking notes in the sidebar, and turn them into tasks later in the week, or notes on my computer. This has worked really well, physically writing my tasks and time restrictions, and has lasted far longer than any to-do app I've used. Experimenting without guilt is an important component to this - you will probably evolve your process to serve your needs, and what you think you need or want now may not be true later.