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I don't use hand written or electronic lists or reminder systems. You might say I use a biological memory system but I don't see it in any way as a list. I'm aw
by yzydserd 5y ago
I don't use hand written or electronic lists or reminder systems. You might say I use a biological memory system but I don't see it in any way as a list. I'm aware that I have tasks, and they have deadlines, priorities, effort levels, complexities, dependencies, relationships, and so forth. But it is so alien to me to put them in an app or on paper. I've tried, since others swear by it. But it makes as much sense to me as writing down the words I know so that I can later use them in the right order at the right times. It's a huge reduction in dimensionality for no purpose.
The discourse is often that there are two groups
1. those that use todo lists and are more productive than if they didn't
2. those that don't use todo lists but could be more productive if they did
I genuinely feel there is a third group, those that do not use todo lists and would not be any more productive if they did. I don't avoid them, I've tried them with their doctrines because they were recommended by others. Didn't add anything at all. I have no 'todo pain points', rarely if ever feel I've forgotten something or would have been aided with a 'list'. I have a good memory/recall capacity but not especially good so it is not that.
I do create 'lists' to add memory, but these are along the lines of the 40 items of grocery to buy, or clicking 'add to list' on Netflix. Not 'todo' lists as such.
I'm interested if anyone else feels similar.
- jonp888 5y agoI couldn't be more different. I probably wouldn't even get out of bed each day unless I wrote down what to eat for Breakfast the night before. To mentally keep track of your entire life, from "in 1 years time I need to get my boiler serviced" to buying birthday gifts on time to completing school/college assignments on time without ever forgetting anything is from point of my view an astounding achievement. If I were to follow such a system I would be constantly racked with anxiety that I had promised someone I would do something and then forgotten about it, or needed to pay a bill, return a library book, eat some food before it went off, etc. etc. Perhaps I just have a terrible memory.