To-Do Lists Don't Work

Re:To-Do Lists Don't Work by z92 on Sunday September 29, 2013 @09:01AM (#6465063)

Scheduling works for me. Not a TODO list. I schedule what I shall be doing tomorrow and as soon as that's done, I get out of office. This motivates me to start work early in the morning, just to feel relaxed after finishing my work for the day by 11:00, for example.

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Re:To-Do Lists Don't Work by xerophtye on Sunday September 29, 2013 @01:15PM (#6465774)

That somehow never works for me. Partially because when writing code you cant always knw how long wil it take (issues come up all the time. debugging can take a while especially if it's a big project and there is a lot of code written by a lot of different people)

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Re:To-Do Lists Don't Work by eatmyshardz on Sunday September 29, 2013 @09:34AM (#6465135)

You bring up a great point that I think the article left out—scheduling the tasks ahead of time before the day you have to do them can help tremendously. For me, that is motivation in and of itself that I can just start the next day with it already planned.

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Re:To-Do Lists Don't Work by jt2190 on Sunday September 29, 2013 @10:33AM (#6465257)

This is exactly what the article is advocating:

  > The alternative to the feckless to-do list is what 
  > I call “living in your calendar.”

Or did I miss a subtle difference in with your approach?

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Re:To-Do Lists Don't Work by girvo on Sunday September 29, 2013 @10:17AM (#6465221)

I schedule blocks of time for certain over-arching projects, and then pull out that specific projects TODO list when my calendar tells me.

Gives me an excellent balance of rigidness and flexibility. :)

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