I've personally found that I was "holding it wrong" when it comes to TODO apps. I think everyone likely has a slightly different approach to personal productivi

I've personally found that I was "holding it wrong" when it comes to TODO apps. I think everyone likely has a slightly different approach to personal productivity that works best for them, but here are some insights that helped me: 1. Finding the right time scale: some people plan out their entire day, some their week, etc. For me, planning at a monthly timescale is more appropriate. 2. Don't use TODOs for chores and habit tracking. At first, I tried using todo apps to also track stuff like chores or hobbies I wanted to pursue daily. For me, this had the negative effects of making my chores take up even more brain space (now I not only have to do the chore but I actually have to mark it as done etc) and turning hobbies into a deadening "do it because you must" sort of obligation instead of a fun pursuit. It turns out I was getting these things done anyway so they weren't a good fit for a todo app which in this case just increased overhead for no reason. 3. It's important to recognize what counts as a concrete task and what sort of projects are more general, free form creative endeavors that it may not be worth it to squeeze into an itemized todo list. For me, many of the actual todos I have are temporal events, so what I really needed was a calendar. For my creative projects, I do a lot better when I actually don't constrain myself with a todo list. So, in the end, I've settled on using a calendar to track important tasks I need to do each month (usually "life admin" type stuff) and that's it. I found that everything else was way too fine grained to be useful.