Todo Lists?

[sorcyress]

Spent therapy talking about what is working (my dailies sheet!) and what isn't working (any form of personal todo list) so sure, why not, let's go absolute ham and ask this question:

What does your todo list look like? What do you use to keep track of tasks that you should do? How do you make sure you actually do them?

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My answer is only applicable for work, but it's a microsoft word file entitled "SY23 ToDo". The default font is size14 and bold, and I use that to write today's date, then un-bold, drop down to size11, and start a bulleted list. I always have DAILIES and PREP FOR TOMORROW as categories, I also frequently have GRADING or PREP FOR TODAY or FROM EMAIL or ETC.

And _everything_ I need to do goes in it. Stuff as inconsequential as "post the dinosaur I draw everyday on Instagram", stuff as serious as "enter grades for students before they are due on Thursday". Tasks are broken down to as tiny pieces as I can manage, and simple stuff I ought to remember but won't gets thrown in as its own point. The file is always open and saved frequently. Every time I complete a bullet point, I highlight it.

That's it. About every ten days, I go through all the recent entries and copypaste any undone tasks back up to the current day. I then move the big bold line of stars back under the current entry, to denote that anything below it is just for archival purposes, and does not need to be looked at anymore --the important stuff is still with me.

It works _great_ for me! Highlighting is satsifying, bulleted lists are Very Satisfying, having today's date be larger is useful and satisfying.

Now it's your turn!

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[lauradi7dw]

Scraps of paper by the bed. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

[tacnukesoul]

I use bullet journal mostly. Since I can't take my phone into work a lot of the app solutions are not usable. I also have a shared Google doc with N-M, which I can use at the office along with G Cal, but that's been hit or miss so far.

[jducoeur]

For work: JIRA. For Querki: a homebrew database built in Querki itself. Those both work pretty well.

Everything else is kind of a mess at the moment, reflecting the fact that my life is split into vastly too many projects across too many organizations and responsibilities. I really should find a way to develop a master priority list, so I stop dropping quite so many balls all over the place.

(Me being me, that solution will inevitably be electronic, and probably online -- that's the way my life works nowadays. Probably something built in Querki, maybe adapted from the Issue Tracker.)

[blueeowyn]

I don't tend have a ToDo list. I do put some things in my on-line calendar that need to be watched/done. I have some meetings with myself that have topics (usually stuff I want to track for my annual review or my 1:1 with supervisor. DH likes ToDo lists but frequently they become an "Everything that needs to ever be done" which is less than helpful to me.

Exceptions to the not tending to have them are lists of stuff that need to be done/dealt with before a trip or certain events (including packing list, updating cat care list, etc.).