Using todo lists
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alex.barylski
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Using todo lists
Do you prefer simple TODO lists or structured TODO lists?
I've been working on a little TODO list application in MFC for a while and it just occured to me that, nested TODO items may not be the way to go...
TODO lists are meant to give a quick overview of things to do...and thus should be updated frequenlty to reflect what needs to be done...
Structured TODO lists could possibly take a long time to keep updated...
Thus you might spend more time updating your TODO list and discovering required tasks than actually completing tasks...
What do you htink...
Simple, linear TODO lists or organized, structured, well defined task lists???
I've been working on a little TODO list application in MFC for a while and it just occured to me that, nested TODO items may not be the way to go...
TODO lists are meant to give a quick overview of things to do...and thus should be updated frequenlty to reflect what needs to be done...
Structured TODO lists could possibly take a long time to keep updated...
Thus you might spend more time updating your TODO list and discovering required tasks than actually completing tasks...
What do you htink...
Simple, linear TODO lists or organized, structured, well defined task lists???
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alex.barylski
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My wife spends more time creating "todo lists" that she ever does doing anything that is on those lists. She also, of course, creates lists of things for me to do, which I pretty much ignore. I basically never make lists other than grocery lists which I careffully take with me to the store and then buy a whole bunch of stiff that isn't on them.
The neverending todo lists ... use them a lot but not always as structured as I should be. As with Bill's wife, creating lists is one thing, doing everything on them another.
But I think one aspect of creating them is that that activity alone already helps to remember the things or think of other you should do. Sometimes being a kind of mini-brainstorm session.
But I think one aspect of creating them is that that activity alone already helps to remember the things or think of other you should do. Sometimes being a kind of mini-brainstorm session.
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I'm a jotter too. I have paper everywhere. I like the feeling I get when I can put a line through an item in the list.Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:Rip page from A4 (Legal) pad. Write list. Perform tasks on list. Throw paper in bin...
My typical workday....
I use todo lists simply to keep tasks in mind, the act of writing a list has benefits all by itself.
I've never included TODO lists in my work as a file in itself.