For quite a while I have not used any project management or todo-lists at all. I usually have a project or few that I need to progress and I just keep them in m

For quite a while I have not used any project management or todo-lists at all. I usually have a project or few that I need to progress and I just keep them in my head. Sometimes I book some appointments with some other people which gives me a deadline to make some progress. For some crucial chores I may do a temporary todo-list of maybe three trivial items. Not sure how optimal this is, but I've managed to stay employed and get most important things done. A plus side is that this has a sort of automatic priorization and pruning: I just forget some of the things or projects or ideas, and probably there's a (negative) correlation between importance and forgetting. Perhaps people are on average a bit too preoccupied with planning and "tasking up" and managing and measuring things to do. I've found its often more trouble than it's worth. Also in anything more complicated the plan usually collapses quite rapidly, and having a strict task-structure etc may well cause people to keep the wrong course for too long.