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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.
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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... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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So it's a case of "Let the gum decide"
In my life now there is only two "ToDo" items:
"Keep on Breathing"
"Keep out of the way of Her Indoors"
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I used the grey list between my ears since the days when I did not have a computer yet. Kindof freeware that came bundled with myself.
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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 rarely forget my 'to-do' things, but do tend to remember them them at the wrong time.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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lol I think I just have a Grey-cache. It evaporates so easily.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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TODO: Make a single TODO list and stick with it.
My own TODO list:
1. Make a TODO list (check)
2. Check off the first item on the TODO list (check)
3. Realize you've already accomplished two things on the list (check)
4. Reward yourself with a nap! (in progress)
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You are a winner  
But seriously sticking to ToDo routine is is definitely a ToDo!
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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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...
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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"To Do Is To Be." - Socrates
"To Be Is To Do." - Sartre
"Do Be Do Be Do." - Sinatra
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
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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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Slacker007 wrote: I try to groom my list once a week and I add to it everyday.
Truth.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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JIRA at work, everything that needs to be done becomes a backlog task.
Works for me (TM)
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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.
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Work-Todo. Personal Todos are managed by either bein iterative (thus repeating) tasks, or by calendar entries.
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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.
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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
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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
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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:
- Tends to chatter at high speeds
- No "mute" option
- Requires constant attention and maintenance
- 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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Just realised all that also 100% true substituting 'Wife' with 'microsoft.'
So that's their business model! Wow! It's brilliant, full credit.
but I still refuse to embiggen their 'm'.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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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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Marc Clifton wrote: I would imagine the frequency of your changing ToDo list management methods is directly proportional to the size of your ToDo list.
loll it's like running to a new container when things overflows. If I had cleared things up on time, I think I'd have remained with just one.
Marc Clifton wrote: 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.
The whole burden of introducing this ToDo "process" is to get rid of the gun pointed at my back by my wife. lol 60-70% tasks in someway related to my wife. Like Get this for the baby, Plan outing , Plan for her birthday. (compulsively)
Oh damn, it just strikes to me, her birthday is nearing pretty close. Need to enter this in ToDo first, Or get ready to die. 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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