Re:Ask HN: How do you structure your to-do lists?
by themodelplumber on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @02:45PM
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Here's what I use, in brief. It's in my daily journal text file w/ Markdown formatting. The journal files are generated via cron job.
For day-scope items I use a master to-do list & daily schedule. The goal of the to-do list is to arrive at a schedule (previously the two were less related in terms of which arrived at which).
Example from today:
- META Schedule +sked
- 910a
- x Coffee
- x PROJ Maint.
- x Rank programming languages
- 12p
- Intervals of work design
- META Points Tally - Use scaling
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- [V-/.] Develop, Progress, Organize, Check-off (-1 pt per)
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- [F-/.] Check Universe Levels (-0.5 pt per)
- Vnt - like/dislike
- Prmt - can/cannot
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- [T-/.] High-Executive, Low-Contingency (+2 pts per)
- [T-/_] [xsc] PROJ A
- [T-/_] [_sc] Work CRP review
- [T-/_] [_sc] Invoicing Review
- [T-/_] [_sc] Reset settings for X
There are a lot of optional features here like playing golf to avoid productivity burnout (points tally, unused in today's example), determining whether a task is yet on the schedule (xsc) and the type of task (V/F/T), which is determined by a system I designed for balanced productivity [0].
For longer time scope items (maybe what you're referring to by "larger" tasks?) I also integrate a milestone communications, calendar & deadline system which naturally breaks things down into more manageable portions.
This system has changed a lot over the years, and will continue changing...good luck with whatever you decide to do.
For day-scope items I use a master to-do list & daily schedule. The goal of the to-do list is to arrive at a schedule (previously the two were less related in terms of which arrived at which).
Example from today:
There are a lot of optional features here like playing golf to avoid productivity burnout (points tally, unused in today's example), determining whether a task is yet on the schedule (xsc) and the type of task (V/F/T), which is determined by a system I designed for balanced productivity [0].For longer time scope items (maybe what you're referring to by "larger" tasks?) I also integrate a milestone communications, calendar & deadline system which naturally breaks things down into more manageable portions.
This system has changed a lot over the years, and will continue changing...good luck with whatever you decide to do.
0. https://www.friendlyskies.net/intj/the-balance-first-approac...