To-do lists

I just noticed that I no longer really make to-do lists. Over time I have wavered back and forth on this: sometimes I would have a piece of paper in my pocket, and sometimes I'd just brain-dump onto a large piece of paper, but right now I'm mostly drifting along using my calendar for appointments and my memory for everything else.

I stopped using electronic to-do lists quite some time ago: they're too much effort to update, not so easy to access, and don't handle large lists well.

My one exception is my inbox: I still use my email inbox (with flagged and unread messages) as a kind of reminder/task queue.

Perhaps this is the antithesis of GTD?

Posted at 2009-01-16 11:46:00 by Richard Newman • Link to To-do lists