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The hardest part for me is consulting my lists. Does anyone ever get so bored (or motivated?) that they say "hey, I wonder where I could find a huge list of ta
by rconti 9y ago
The hardest part for me is consulting my lists.
Does anyone ever get so bored (or motivated?) that they say "hey, I wonder where I could find a huge list of tasks to choose from!"?
I email myself reminders. I put items in my google calendar. I've occasionally used google todo lists. I use Remember The Milk. I have iCloud notes and text files. I have Jira tickets.
I never look at these things. Or at least, I never consult them with proper regularity.
Working with todo lists has reduced my mental burden, but I STILL have those things hanging out in my head that I know I need to do, yet aren't written down. Or maybe they are, but they also occupy space in my mind. Again, far less than before I had a "system", but even with the "system", I don't find much relief.
I have maybe 30-40 items in my RememberTheMilk list. Some have dates, many don't. Many of the ones with dates I've been postponing for 6+ months. Which means to consult the list (which I do only every 3-5 days) is a burden in and of itself, because now I have to re-schedule a lot of things. I could leave these items without a date, but then they'll be even LESS likely to get done, because they're down somewhere at the bottom. And the list is too long for me to regularly look over and feel I have a handle on. So I create calendar items with reminders for things I really need to do, say, sometime this afternoon. But maybe 2pm was a bad choice because I got involved in something, so I'll ignore the alert. now I have to look back at the calendar and see there was a think I was supposed to do in the past.
I don't know -- I'm getting better, I guess, but the difficulty still seems to be the actual DOING.
- dford 9y agoI'm the same exact way... Tasks and reminders are spread across multiple services, but I never check them. Have you tried offline notes? It's not sexy and it doesn't sync with all of your devices, but for computer-related tasks the only to-do list I've had consistent success with is large post-it notes. It's always next to my keyboard so the effort required to consult the list is next to none.
- rconti 9y agoYeah, I've bought and used notebooks, but my best results are with post-it notes.