What To Do with Your To Do List
How do I Manage My To Do List?
Pen and paper? Stickies? Remember the Milk? ToDo.txt? Voo2Do? The list of tools goes on and on…
So, let’s say I find this cool tool that guarantees I will “stay organized, get motivated and be more productive.” I need this tool and all that it can do for me! I decide to commit to this cool tool. I spend some time gathering my sticky notes, the scraps of paper with scribbles all over them, and the list I started in my .txt file. I get very excited to enter my "data" in this ultra-cool tool, assign priorities and due dates to tasks, and I can just feel the productivity racing through my veins. This tool and I are going to make magic!
Not so much. I keep resorting back to my pen-and-scraps-of-paper way of life. Reason being: I really don’t care for this tool. It takes too long to enter in new items, the sort feature is funky, and it just isn’t comfortable.
Let the search begin for another cool tool. In the meantime, I survive with my mound of stickies and scribbles on paper, and I resurrect the .txt file. All of a sudden, my additional searches reveal the tool I need. This one has a better sort feature, a slick calendar feature, and is really, really easy to use. Begin round 2 of entering data into the new tool that I’m just sure will save my life.
Not so much. This tool is way too complicated and really takes a lot of time to set up before I can actually use the sucker. My To Do List can’t take more time to manage then the tasks on my To Do List will take to perform. Can it??? Yes, my friend. Yes, it can. At least for me, it can.
Looks like I’ll be hanging with pen, paper and the good old ToDo.txt. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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