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Downside of to-do lists 1. You spend too much time optimizing your to-do list. 2. You realize you are spending too much time optimizing your to-do list and you
by omegalulw 5y ago
Downside of to-do lists
1. You spend too much time optimizing your to-do list.
2. You realize you are spending too much time optimizing your to-do list and you give up in frustration because you feel like you don't get your actual work done.
With a text file, it's a free for all, you don't feel obligated to keep it clean, when you have to make a note you just "do it".
- idoh 5y agoIt’s just definitional at this point - I’d say that a text file counts as a to do list.
- beebeepka 5y agoI am confused. The assumption here seems to be that people are using to-do lists to... schedule their lives or something? Otherwise what you said makes zero sense to me. Either way, I cannot relate at all
- stathibus 5y agoYes, some people make a hobby out of the lists themselves. That's probably not a good idea. The solution is not "stop making lists."