Fri, 29 Jan 2010

To Do Lists and Life

In my life as a stellar-class procrastinator, I have evolved a variety of techniques aimed at convincing myself that I’m doing something about my desire to get stuff done. Probably the most well-used of these—apart from straight-out avoidance—has been via the creation of numerous lists of things to do. At its best, this results in lists of lists and lists of lists of lists. And, since I am a software person, that then results in an occasional burst of time-wasting in search of the ideal software tool for making lists.

Mostly, I find a few tools that I haven’t seen before and a few that I have tried but which I hope might have improved just that little bit to make them useful. Always, I spend a day or two playing with the tools I find and sometimes I choose one—only to discard it a week or so later.

Usually, I keep these little excursions into procrastination secret. But today’s find—todoist—has already impressed me as being much better than anything I’ve tried previously, so I’m going to give it a mention here in the hope that it will force me to just get on with ticking off stuff from my new lists (and also to let people who like lists know about a new toy).

And, to be honest, the other reason for posting about it is so I can tick off the item about blogging every Friday.

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