People often ask: how I personally organize my work. I use a lot of tools for personal effectiveness. Today let’s talk about the task list.
A task list is the most important tool for organizing personal effectiveness. Absolutely everything that needs to be done gets offloaded from your head into the task list. The list is divided into “projects,” for example: “Work,” “University,” “Home,” and so on. Tasks are also divided into “Do today,” “Do this week,” and “Do later.”
The most important condition is to offload absolutely everything that’s in your head. From elementary things to complicated ones. You must not give in to the temptation of “nah, I’ll remember this and do it anyway.” In 95% of cases, things like that get forgotten and don’t get done.
For managing tasks, I recommend “Micromiles”: http://micromiles.co/
The task list for the day and for the week needs to be reviewed daily, moving tasks around if necessary. The task list for the week and for later needs to be reviewed once a week and also moved around if needed.
As a result, your head will be completely freed from the need to remember what has to be done, and all your attention will be devoted only to the tasks that need to be done today. With a task list, it’s impossible to forget something. You can consciously not do it, but forget it — impossible.
I remember when I first wrote all the tasks from my head into the program, I felt an unprecedented relief. It turned out that yes, there were a lot of important tasks, but for that particular day there were literally two, and I had already taken care of both of them, so there was no need to worry anymore. It was happiness.
For more detail on the method of getting things to the finish line, you can watch Maxim Dorofeev: http://mnogosdelal.ru/slidecasts/dovedenie-del-do-kontsa/
How people live without a task list, I do not know. I strongly recommend starting one.