I always like to learn how people manage their lives.
If you’re the type of person who ends up having to add dozens—or more—of tasks/to-dos to your list every day, how do you capture everything you have to do, and how do you manage those to-dos going forward?
Which apps/systems, etc?
If you’re the type of person who ends up having to add dozens—or more—of tasks/to-dos to your list every day, how do you capture everything you have to do, and how do you manage those to-dos going forward?
Which apps/systems, etc?
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For daily To-Do's, I use paper lists. One list will last a few days, with items being crossed off and added. Fun to cross everything off, or move the scragglers to a new list.
For my personal tasks, I have a simple notepad that says “to do list.”
Writing the things that you have to do and crossing it when its done is a pure pleasure
✔️made to do list
I’ve tried apps (on my team at work, we use the Teams Planner kanban for our individual lists, but anything on that list for me, is also in my notebook.
The secret is that most of us struggle to understand our true intentions, and as a result struggle to say no to things that are irrelevant.
Somehow this keeps me mostly aware of all the things that a normal person would do, one at a time; but you know, when everything is an emergency, nothing is...
Used it for years.
https://www.rememberthemilk.com/
She'll set timers & notifications, add things to my calendar & to lists (like shopping) w/just a quick spoken instruction-I don't have to interrupt my current task or count on remembering it later.
Hate Amazon but idk how I survived before Alexa.
https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/14/apples-reminders-app-seven-power-user-features/
Recurring weekly tasks are in a template button on Notion, one click generates a fresh week of tasks.
I have ADHD, there's about 20 items that keep being
A few years ago an app called Taskade was also nice for keeping track of things.
A pen
Nothing works well. But that is on me, not the system. It’s about improving my own discipline.