For me any old list of tasks will do, but for each task I have to be very careful about keeping a context I can jump into with as little friction as possible.

For me any old list of tasks will do, but for each task I have to be very careful about keeping a context I can jump into with as little friction as possible. That means a record of the current state of the project and basic usage notes for the tools involved. Maybe I'm just lazy, but when it comes to picking up an old task, nothing turns me off like spending half an hour figuring out where the hell I left off two weeks ago and then another half hour relearning the tools I was using. Combining that information with any kind of task tracking or TODO list has never worked for me, which means task tracking is of secondary importance for me compared to note-taking.