To-do lists don't work - you do.
To-Do Lists Don't Work
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
exactly! todo lists help ALOT. I usually use trello for this. It really helps me remember on monday what i was doing on friday and what needs to get done. None of the complains in the article make sense to me. When i make a todo list, i usually have a sense of direction so I dont get stuck in the "choices choices" problem. Besides, didn't anyone teach you how to prioritize stuff? "Urgent, Important; Important, not ur…
What do you do when you don't have a sense of direction? I wish a todo list would make me do things I wouldn't dare do. Like things you don't usually write in a todo list.
To me, working on something daring is all about the excitement. The problem usually is that i get excited at the wrong times. Having amazing ideas when you have your hands full isn't exactly useful or productive. heck it turns out to be counter productive at times! And when i do have my hands free, the ideas dont come. so The best way for me is to jot down those ideas on a trello board with as much detail as i dare, so that i can visit it later and feel that excitement all over again and actualyl DO those things. works for me :)
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#123what I do is plan my personal tasks in Clear (without a due date) and Brightpod (http://www.brightpod.com). Luckily, Brightpod has a pretty powerful calendar that helps me plan my tasks on a weekly basis.
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#124And how about the hubris of my self of yesterday claiming the right to decide what my self of today should be spending time on? I need to write down things that need doing and can't be forgotten, but surely I am in a better position to decide what to do over the next hour now than I was yesterday.
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#125Hasn't the Harvard Business Review ever read the book "Getting Things Done?" Anyone serious about managing their time is familiar with each of these problems and develops their To-Do list with these complexities in mind. The To-Do list is dead. Long live the To-Do list.
All these articles are written to market something, in this case the author himself.
This is a pretty poor area to market yourself. Covey might be dead, but Allen is still productive and IMHO, is a better writer than this guy.
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#126Not this again.
Seriously I am getting bored or the constant reposts on this subject.
Shock. Horror. Something that doesn't work for you works well for other and vice versa. Personally for me a nice notebook (the inner hipster in me really likes the soft cover lined page moleskine notebooks) works perfectly. I use pencil so I can rub out and update each item without having to cross things out and make things look ugly. It is quick and easy to update and very easy to do a quick visual parse over.
For electronic notes I find the Google Keep app to be pretty good with its timed and location based reminders. Although it is much slower to use than a notebook it is quite nice for when I have a low priority task that I will need to be reminded to get around too.
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#127I use a 1-2-3 system that works fairly well for all my work related tasks. One main task, two medium ones and three small ones (guestimated myself). I always start with the big one. This is fairly conservative and less than I do on a typical workday but I think not adding too much is important.
I write them down in a notebook each day in the morning (might be better doing it the evening before) and then cross them off when done. Usually I add more adhoc stuff when I'm done with my "pyramid"
I keep track of long term stuff, ideas, projects and so forth in Trello but the day to day todo lists are in a plain notebook. I also keep my inboxes empty and make it a point of emphasis to congratulate myself on removing stuff from my inbox (30 minute mailcheck is usually one of my 3 small items).
Personal stuff...I don't plan that at all.
For me that fixes most of the stuff mentioned in the post. The notebook TODO list works very well for me.
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#128Am I the only one that thinks this article is extremely similar to this one?
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505143_162-57368011/why-to-do-li...
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can we get "(for me)" added to the topic here? Such a disclaimer (or rather "for some people") could be added to almost every lifehack / productivity tip / work habit / fitness technique / etc. Work at home / in the office / in the cafe / for yourself / in a team / pair programming / standing desks / morning walks / coffee brewing / IDE tools / soylent / fasting / feasting / work-life balance / pretty much everything…
Agreed. There's often a pedantic need to point out some structural "flaw" in a statement and dismiss it, vs. making an effort to gain insight from its message. "All Cretans are liars" - Epimenides The logical robot concludes that because Epimenides was Cretan, the statement is a logical contradiction (hah, got you!) and nothing can be learned. A wiser man realizes he should be wary when in Crete.
Consider your example in the context of a HN topic.
^ All Cretans are liars
7 points by Epimenides | 5 minutes ago | flag | 2 comments
I'd expect this article to be flagged into oblivion, both by Cretans who are not liars, and by people peeved by the obviously incorrect absolute in the topic.
Doesn't it bug you at all when people engage in these kinds of fallacies to further a point, when they should damn well know better?
Would it have really have killed the submitter to reword as "Be wary in Crete" instead of knowingly posting something false? Would it really kill someone who's making an absolute statement, (a knowingly false one, mind) to reword it into something that still gets their point across, is actually correct, and won't lead to endless corrections in the comment thread?
To me, it shows a certain disdain for your reader when bait like this is written.
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#130I made a to-do list webapp with a twist just for myself, and it's been really helpful. The twist is, every Wednesday, it calculates how many of my goals I've accomplished during the past week, assigns me a grade, and sends the grade to three of my friends, to help hold me accountable.
Be great to see this. Anything visible?
Thanks for your nice feedback. The design isn't anything special since it's just for me at this point, but here's a screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9229925/Screen%20Shot%20...
I'm planning to share it via Github soon, at which point I'll share the code.