It's why, when we were full time in the office, I preferred the use of sticky notes. Physical task and progress tracking is great.

Make sure to get the extra sticky ones though. We once lost track of quite some bugs because the glue let go and the post-its fell into the air-vents below.

As someone who writes copious little todo lists on post-it notes with little check boxes I can X out when they're done... I kinda love this. Not really remote-work friendly, though.

I guess you could achieve the same (or a similar) workflow remotely by using fax machines.

The uniqueness of the physical object being moved around plays a real role, though. I can also imagine the print out accumulating notes as it gets passed around.