How do you track your todo list?

op=Miss Gulch

Hotel stationary.

Cuneiform tablet.

I'm old school.

Backs of envelopes.

Dayrunner at the top of my desk. Just like I did 25 years ago. Technology is nonsense in this area.

Pencil and Paper. I like seeing the whole list, including the things I've already completed.

Caucasian thread.

The OP isn't important enough to have a to-do list.

At work, I have a white board. I don't do to do lists in my personal life.

To Do Task Manager - helps me list and track my online orders and deliveries

Note Everything - for my grocery list, voice notes or picture notes

Maybe you need a touch pen like the Samsung Galaxy Note 8

I have a Google account and use Calendar for scheduling, Keep for note taking, and Inbox by Gmail (the new interface for Gmail) as a master To Do list that happens to receive e-mail (and most emails are tasks anyway).

Google lets you attach a "reminder" (which is really just a task or a To Do item) to Calendar events, Keep notes, and Inbox e-mails, or create a stand-alone reminder. You can set the dates and times of the reminders. Then when you look in your Inbox by Gmail, all the reminders appear at the day/time you plan to do them. You can also see those rinders on your Google Calendar.

It's all cloud-based so I can use all three apps on my smartphone if I'm not at my desk using a browser.

In olden times, the 1990s until mid-2000s, I used a paper planner. Franklin Quest (later Franklin Covey) was my preference, and while I loved that system and still love paper, there is no going back. Digital calendars and task lists are way more efficient and imo Google has the best, and I've tried many others.

My mom recently gifted me one of these. It's awesome. The tip of the pen lights up in the dark.

I track Toto by microchipping his ear.

I have an evernote with a plain day to day calendar like a word processor where I write down things to do and I either cross them out (if I want to look back on it) or delete if it's trivial.

Google Keep. Motto: "It's not bad, I guess"

Google Keep app

Google keep lets u cross off done stuff. It is the home page on my work browser and an app on my phone..

[quote] Hotel stationary

Most hotels are

Todo in Spanish means " all of something" . Todo el mundo= everybody

not all R19

I have PTSD from too much exposure to lesbians that make lists. I refuse to make them except with my few remaining addled brain cells.

I accidentally took Jerry Kennedy's day planner home. Imagine my embarrassment when I showed up for handball with Walter Cronkite! Don't ever tell him he looks like Captain Kangaroo.

Google Keep in conjunction with Google Calendar for little stuff. Asana for bigger projects and also tasks connected to the association of which I'm a member. Asana also connects to Google Calendar, so I always have an overview of everything, regardless of where I jot down the task.

With my brain.

A big calendar I bought at Staples

A borrowed uterus.

I have a person who does that for me. Why wouldn't everyone?

I follow David Allen's methodology and use Things. OmniFocus is also very good.

My brain...

^ Did your brain notice that somebody else already said that?

R31 well that’s good!! Great minds think alike! Thanks for sharing.

Pen and paper on a clipboard. Never fails me.

Tried many e-lists apps and programs. Google calendar reminder is probably the one that has lasted the longest. But eventually, after a few days (usually) or a few months, I find it pretty easy to ignore them. Nevermind all the reminders--easy to clear them away from the screen. I have used Evernote for years--but only as an info depository, I can't see it as a to do or task tool.

Considering going back to pen and paper. But the main problem is that I'm a just a time/responsibility sloth.

Ringbinder block, a pencil and a marker. When I am on a very sophisticated mode, I use the old Pelican from my late great uncle from the 1960's, my Waterman or my Mont Blanc "Meisterstück" ink fountain pen.

For personal dates a DIN A 6 calendre, for business a A 4 calendar book whith two pages for every day.

All my really! relevant adresses and phone numbers are documented in an 10 years old Moleskine paper notebook. Written with a real Faber-Castell Graphit pencil HB2. Changing numbers costs a rubber eraser

Exploding clouds, dying Laptops and Smartphones, lack of electricity do not harm me.

Sounds weird? Well, I am an middle age 50 german. So, do not wonder.

Let’s ask this: how long have your items been on your ‘to do’ list?

The customer base for paper planners seems to be older techphobic Baby Boomers who still use planners as originally intended. But there's also paper planner culture of Millennial frauen who doll up their DayTimers with colored markers, stickers and glitter. A cottage industry has emerged from this "pretty planning" phenomenon and it seems to be more about tactile experience rather than practical use.

People with actual work to get done use digital apps these days.

I still have a hard copy address book with both street addresses and email addresses and phone numbers, etc.

And I am the person in the family that gets the call when an emergency occurs and the word must be sent out because I am the only one who has bothered to keep all the info. (Yes I have electronic copies of a lot of this info, but the book is the best.)

Erin Condren brand is the paper day planner of choice for Millennial frauen.

Cortana (both on my laptop/tablet, phone, and Cortana Invoke speaker) using WunderList as the engine.

Works great.

I just picked up an original IBM "Think" pad, to maintain my hipster bonafides

I use an Amazon Echo.

I use a $50 Moleskine notebook that fits in my pocket and has about 12 pages.

I use my laptop and iPhone a lot but there's nothing like putting a Postit on the bathroom mirror. I write what I have to do today or this week and it's like my mind or subconscious is forced to do it. If I rely on technology, it won't get done.

I have a blank 8.5x11" sheet of paper with square post-it notes stuck to it. Each post-it has a different theme, like grocery shopping list, online shopping list, cleaning tasks, home improvement small project tasks, and another for longer term projects (just a list of projects I need to start). Unfortunately I don't get much done because after I'm finished working for the week I want to chill out and do absolutely nothing.

Of course, you can't get it done, R45. That's overkill.

R45 here....I forgot to mention the beauty of this system.....you can just snatch one of the post it notes off the 8.5x11" paper if you need to make it a mobile list. For example, when going to the grocery store I remove the grocery shopping post it and stick it to my cell phone and then put it in my pocket.

I'm retired. When I was working I used MS Outlook. I had been a Franklin Planner user for years. When my employer bought the MS Office license everyone had to keep an Outlook calendar I put everything into to Outlook. Including my to do list. I also kept a spiral bound reporters notebook for notes. I used it in conjunction with OneNote.

Now I don't either. I have a great 6" by (' leather portfolio. It holds a notebook with numbered pages and index on the first page. I use it to record by to do lists and other daily notes. I find this is one of the great things about being retired -the only organizing tool I need is very simple.

The Zborny.

It's not only a baked potato opener, but a to do list tracker as well.

Sticky pads and people who depend on me to keep reminding me when I've let them down and when I'm gonna get to that. My friends and family have been calling me Mr. Magoo for years so they already no to lead me by the nose if we're ever doing anything together. I find these work well for me. So why try to change me now?

Day-Timer planner and a composition book with graph paper ruling.

Your way, OP.

I've been using Inbox by Gmail, as mentioned upthread, but Google will shut it down next March.

Now what?

I use a little notebook, bullet journal style.

At work I use Outlook....lightly. My job is pretty routine plus we get daily updates from the project manager.

Those bullet journals seem like a lot of work. How long does it take you each day to write all that out?

Google Tasks. It works as an app in Android, or a web page in Windows. You can have multiple lists (shopping, to-do, etc.) I even use it to track gift cards, coupons that expire, etc. because you can add due dates, which sync with Google Calendar.

Do any of you read "productivity" blogs/forums, books or listen to podcasts? A lot of those productivity dudes are cringey AF but I can't stop consuming their content.

Post it notes... all over the cabinets. :)

Cure cancer,

Stop global warming

Buy the generic kind of pop-tarts

^ OK, but how do you break those down into goals and tasks? And do you use a paper or digital planner?

Notes app in IOS

I miss Inbox by Gmail terribly.

Now I'm using gmail + calendar + tasks + keep, and it's nowhere near as smoothe and efficient as Inbox was.

Why does Google shit down its great apps?

Microsoft To Do

I use the todo.txt system with a couple small apps to make it easy to sync between laptop and phone, and Joplin as a free and open-source alternative to Evernote for bigger things. I self-host everything with Nextcloud... Google can keep their hands off my data!

AwesomeNote app

The little notepads that comes as freebies with charity requests for money, and free advertising pens picked up at banks, the hardware store, etc.

^ that come. Aaarrgh!

Old school = I use pen and paper

I rely on my brain. Sadly, it isn't what it used to be.

For one-off immediate tasks, I just put an entry in my calendar for the date/time I'm most likely to do it, with an alert.

For the quarterly tasks, I put a calendar entry at the start of each quarter with the same list of things to do (changing filters, rotating mattress, deep cleaning, etc.).

The calendar is in the cloud and I can access it from my laptop/mobile devices.

For the in-between tasks, I used to keep an old calendar entry with a list inside it. I moved it from day to day and removed items as I went along. That was cumbersome. Now I keep the tasks in a Reminders app checklist that I can access from my laptop/mobile devices.

Fuck use AwesomeNote!

I write to do lists on my hands - very effective approach.

[quote]I miss Inbox by Gmail terribly. Now I'm using gmail + calendar + tasks + keep, and it's nowhere near as smoothe and efficient as Inbox was. Why does Google shit down its great apps?

Same here!

A year since they closed it down, and I still can't find a decent alternative. Any advice?

Word tables

Microsoft ToDo

Notes folder/app on IPhone.

For grocery lists and "I need" lists, I love good old fashioned pen and paper. I hate having to overhandle and look at my phone in the store. Especially in the days of Covid.

iPhone Notepad. Grocery lists, prescriptions, all of that.

iPhone calendar

I'm a project manager and use Outlook to manage tasks and appointments. Each project has a project schedule I review and update each day and review with the project team each week. I also record and update actions or tasks that are to be completed each week and I publish this list, along with team notes, after each weekly team meeting.

Plan your work and work your plan.

I attach reminders to any Google Keep notes that need me to do something, and those appear in my calendar. No need for a separate task list anymore.

I’ve tried many things, but the only thing that works for me are small Post-it notes. I like the ease of rearranging them in priority order and having them always visible on my desk. Also, it’s good to be able to put it in a discard pile when I have completed task to see all I have accomplished.

I really want to like Google Tasks but every time I give it another try it falls short.

What an idiotic response, R31

Apple reminders for both one-time and recurring tasks.

For things like grocery lists and packing lists, I love AnyList (free app). You can save "master lists" and just tick the individual items on and off so you're not reentering everything every time.

As needed, no lists! Akkkkkkk!

That's why I have my girl Friday!