The never ending battle of this "ToDo" thing.
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I use a simple spreadsheet for my ToDo list. I have a column that is rated 1 - 10 (decimals included) and I sort the priority on that list. Items that I have finished fall through the filter. I try to groom my list once a week and I add to it everyday. The thing about these types of lists is that you need to come back to it every 2-3 days for it to me effective. You HAVE to stick to it. If you don't then IMHO, you should abandon the list altogether.
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You use this for Home/personal tasks or taking about ToDo-at work?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
Work-Todo. Personal Todos are managed by either bein iterative (thus repeating) tasks, or by calendar entries.
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
So, really, by implementing a ToDo list you've just given yourself even more to do. Furthermore, if it maintains a hierarchy, which it must by definition of its very existence, well, To Do: see next paragraph. I've a mental list of snarky remarks I could have put in this reply, but really, if you can't remember what it was on its own merit it probably wasn't that important, anyway. Cheer yourself up: as these urgent tasks fade into oblivion, don't fret - they've just gone home quietly - without disturbing you. Now - just do likewise.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
I would imagine the frequency of your changing ToDo list management methods is directly proportional to the size of your ToDo list. ;) If you haven't already, I would suggest installing Wife. Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list, and comes with a built in nagging reminder system. Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I find that my wetware tends to "lose" items, particularly when I leave one room and enter another. It may be a momentary interruption in the WiFi signal, but I'm not sure...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
I'd like to use this [Bullet Journal - The Analog System for the Digital Age](http://bulletjournal.com/) 1 journal* to rule them ... *per year
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I would imagine the frequency of your changing ToDo list management methods is directly proportional to the size of your ToDo list. ;) If you haven't already, I would suggest installing Wife. Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list, and comes with a built in nagging reminder system. Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
Marc Clifton wrote:
I would suggest installing Wife.
This application is no longer being supported by its creator, and has a few serious bugs: 1. Tends to chatter at high speeds 2. No "mute" option 3. Requires constant attention and maintenance 4. If does not receive attention, may decide to spontaneously uninstall itself, trashing any Money files in the process
Marc Clifton wrote:
Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list
According to the application's built-in priorities, not yours.
Marc Clifton wrote:
comes with a built in nagging reminder system
Which cannot be disabled under any circumstances.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
Vunic wrote:
someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
I have also tried (in vain) many of the programs you mentioned. The best thing I have found so far is OneNote...it's actually the only thing I use it for. Legal pads and scratch paper are gathered at the end of the day, or at the start of the next day and the interesting bits get updated, added, or marked as complete in OneNote.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I would suggest installing Wife.
This application is no longer being supported by its creator, and has a few serious bugs: 1. Tends to chatter at high speeds 2. No "mute" option 3. Requires constant attention and maintenance 4. If does not receive attention, may decide to spontaneously uninstall itself, trashing any Money files in the process
Marc Clifton wrote:
Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list
According to the application's built-in priorities, not yours.
Marc Clifton wrote:
comes with a built in nagging reminder system
Which cannot be disabled under any circumstances.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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So, really, by implementing a ToDo list you've just given yourself even more to do. Furthermore, if it maintains a hierarchy, which it must by definition of its very existence, well, To Do: see next paragraph. I've a mental list of snarky remarks I could have put in this reply, but really, if you can't remember what it was on its own merit it probably wasn't that important, anyway. Cheer yourself up: as these urgent tasks fade into oblivion, don't fret - they've just gone home quietly - without disturbing you. Now - just do likewise.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
W∴ Balboos wrote:
I've a mental list of snarky remarks I could have put in this reply
And, thank you for not including them :) cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I would imagine the frequency of your changing ToDo list management methods is directly proportional to the size of your ToDo list. ;) If you haven't already, I would suggest installing Wife. Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list, and comes with a built in nagging reminder system. Marc
Latest Article - Merkle Trees Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
Marc Clifton wrote:
I would suggest installing Wife. Wife will always prioritize your ToDo list, and comes with a built in nagging reminder system.
I think once you factor the total cost of ownership (TCO) over time ... where 'owner' refers to 'wife' and 'owned' refers to you ... and include children, housing, medical, day care, education, divorce, child-support, and psychiatric care ... The TCO will be greater than the sum of all possible losses if you had never kept a to-do list, and never remembered important tasks. cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
ToDoList.png[^] A high school classmate of mine has written an Android reminder type app, but I haven't gotten around to downloading it.
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I used to keep my ToDo list on Postit notes stuck to the wall above my bin. Highest priority, furthest from the bin, obviously. Anything which ended up in the bin was by definition nothing I wanted to worry about... :-D
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
Simply write a script, in your favourite scripting language of course, that converts all the To Dos into Ta Das. Job done...
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
I used a word doc for this, for a while, mainly because of the Shift+Alt+up/down functions, which are brilliant for prioritising/re-ordering items.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
It's the natural way to "age" your "to do" lists (forgetting them; losing them). Otherwise, your lists would just keep getting longer. (There's also that sense, that the moment you finish all your "to do" lists, you will die).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
Read the book: Getting Things Done. the reality is that we truly have "multiple" inboxes, and multiple ways to collect things to do. As said elsewhere, you need a process. Set 2 goals: 1) To review your Todo list twice a day, morning and end of work day 2) To stick with it for 90 days (by which time, it will become a habit) Trust me, I know the feeling. I use ActionOutline to take all of our meeting notes/action items, etc. And my own Personal ToDo list. (I have 8 tabs for the 8 core clients). We also have to use Mantis for 2 clients, and Eclipse for 2 clients. Which means I will NEVER have a consolidated list. After fighting to consolidate... Learning to accept that MY MASTER list is spread out. The only thing I need to review is the high-level. So in GTD words, each of these lists/systems becomes its own project (which it is), and I get to visit/manage them to make it work. I am not perfect at this, but ACCEPTING this really reduced my stress. And now I even use Google Calendar Tasks for things like Grocery/Lowes lists, because the app links to my phone, and I check it when I go out... So, along the path to have ONE LIST to rule them all... I learned one process to manage the lists made more sense. Especially when forced to use other peoples "lists"
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I've been trying to stick to one specific platform/Method for maintaining ToDo list and live with it consistently. But I really don't why, I've been dropping out from the routine for every few months. I keep changing the methods, Like to write them offline on paper/notebook. Then I ditch these papers & stick to online tools like Trello. Again I drop out. I've tried Evernote, Google Keep, Google spreadsheet, WonderList & a dozen more apps. I can make a long list of them. It just works for few months and I break out again. Among all these candidates, a simple excel sheet has been relatively done better. Finally I keep going back to this sheet. What I dislike the most is me taking notes on Notepad with Dates marked. AS IF I'm going to do it so regularly. If I search my disks, I find a hundred ToDo.txt files. I just totally dislike this scattered junk on my machine. It's not about the App/Method/Tools I think it's with me really. Some kind of mental fatigue while following something compulsively. I just wanted to know is it just me or someone else is there who drops out from this ToDo maintenance routine?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
I would suggest using Asana, it's free for small teams. I have slowly brought people into it over the last few years and they always are lukewarm to start off with but then when I come back to them a few weeks later it has become a part of their lives and they get it. Can have multiple workspaces to keep home / work completely apart. Inside that you break it down into multiple projects, and inside that you can break that up with multiple headings. Its basically a todo list app but you can assign stuff for that day or a time in the future, add others in to follow the task, assign the task to others. The great thing about it is that while you get started you can use it just as a simple todo list and then expand out as you become more used to it.
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It's the natural way to "age" your "to do" lists (forgetting them; losing them). Otherwise, your lists would just keep getting longer. (There's also that sense, that the moment you finish all your "to do" lists, you will die).
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal
Gerry Schmitz wrote:
(There's also that sense, that the moment you finish all your "to do" lists, you will die).
Now that was funny. :thumbsup:
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Here's mine: 1. ToDo ToDo 2. ToDo ToDo ToDo 3. ToDo do do... 4. ToDo do do do Inspired by Pink Panther, you know... :-D
You have just been Sharapova'd.
"To Do Is To Be." - Socrates "To Be Is To Do." - Sartre "Do Be Do Be Do." - Sinatra
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