I think many of us could benefit with less focus on applications and more focus on the fundamentals.
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I’ve been doing something similar in Apple Notes for the last several months, though I have my tasks listed by week.
Never do something the easy way if you can find a way to make it complex and wonderful.
I feel by focusing on the convoluted and new we help keep an entire industry afloat. It’s almost a duty to humanity.
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
— Steve Jobs
Awww. I’m going to have to spend a few hours reworking my task management system now. 
I’m using Obsidian Tasks. I use “Highest Priority” to demark things I’m doing today/next, regardless of due date (which allows me to set priorities on a daily basis, rather than simply relying on previously established due dates).
The main thing is being open to flexibility. Right now, I’m tired after a bunch of meetings, so it’s a good time to do less demanding, but need to be done sometime, tasks.
The article is a good reminder to a) make things timebound and b) include everything. I tend to forget things like reading, and just do something like that when the more formal tasks are done.
My lists look GREAT! I am not Getting Things Done, but oh, my LISTS!
As a side note, Carl Pullein is doing these days a “3 months project” of using a Franklin planner (even in digital form in something like Opus One app, which I find very useful in terms of workflow but atrocious in terms of UI). Perhaps going back to these type of more limited tools makes sense.
It’s a classic business parable and can be a nice way to cut through and focus.
My responsibilities and long-term plans are the fundamentals, whether I list them somewhere or keep them circulating in my head. If I want to make those lists shorter, I need to change what I want to accomplish, not write out a subset of them on a new list.
Occam’s Razor
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But for many of us with ADHD, having a short list with nothing on it but what I can do today is essential to staying focused and avoiding overwhelm, and those daily lists are necessarily subsets of long, medium, and even relatively short term goals.
I’ve been really busy recently (that’s why I’ve been on MPU so much 
) - NotePlan is collecting all my pending tasks, but to be honest I’m just writing a daily list on a piece of paper (or on my iPad if I’m feeling fancy). Sometimes the old systems are the best. I think it’s interesting how often I revert to systems I adopted years ago whenever I’m stressed (my never-ending battle to not use Apple Notes when I have better apps set up is also evidence of this!).
You’re right. I meant to nod to that in my first sentence but didn’t do it well.
You can get really fancy.
Resistance is futile.
US $100 for some note cards and a tray to hold them! No thank you.
I received one of those page a day desk calendars last Christmas. The back of each day’s page is a blank sheet of graph paper. I keep these pages together with a binder clip I had in a desk drawer.
Works for me.
YMMV.
Interesting statement, that one — which is the better app, the one you naturally use and that fits smoothly into your brain, or the one with more features or “power user endorsement”?
If you’re into a daily paper task list and want something a little special, but don’t want to buy someone else’s system, ordering your own custom cards works great. I used The Paper Mill Store. No one sells prepackaged cards in the pound, color, finish and dimensions i wanted, so they cut a thousand for about $100. They ship in blocks of 250 so I just need to keep a small box on a shelf. (That’s a competitive price, and their cuts were better than what I could’ve managed.)
Simple is far from easy.
Reminds me of the classic quote
I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.
Yeah, I put them in the same category as 18 karat gold Apple Watches. My first ‘To Do’ lists were on paper and it remains my preferred back up method.
Everyone in my company had those page a day desk calendars when I started in I.T. And I was constantly “borrowing” pages from the used side to write down the requests/complaints that people mentioned as I walked through the factory. 
I’ve been doing something similar in Things. I mark tasks to show up in Today and then I do a quick review in the morning to see if anything more urgent has shown up. I don’t have a hard limit on the number of items, but try to keep it to single digits. If it is more than that, I tag it and push it out of today. That list will be the starting point for the next day’s list of tasks.
