I have to-do lists and notes and musings and sketches going back 45 years. Some in physical notebooks, many captured digitally. Slowly scanning, photographing a

I have to-do lists and notes and musings and sketches going back 45 years. Some in physical notebooks, many captured digitally. Slowly scanning, photographing and capturing the physical media to get it digitally archived. To-do lists get the thoughts out of my head and somewhere concrete so they aren't plaguing my other thoughts. I am not as successful as any of the people mentioned in the article, but I think the to-do lists and notebooks I've kept have done alright by me. There isn't a day in the past 45 years, much like writing code, where I haven't captured something in my notebooks, every day, from the mundane (pick up dry cleaning) to the absurd (create inflatable dart board for real darts). What I have found that works best, for my situation, is to not get too organized with the notes and to-do lists. It helps having the notes searchable, hence the desire to get every note, sketch and to-do item captured digitally, eventually.