• Lost items to find
  • Tasks
  • Devices to Charge
  • Shopping
  • Appointments
  • Birthdates (for social harmony)
  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    Ok but still what are some more modular/limited lists like I’ve provided? What specific ones do you think are missing from my list of lists?

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      For me it basically breaks down to

      • life

      ** social

      *** gifts

      *** birthdays

      *** social event journal to remember past events

      ** tasks

      *** repetitive weekly chore list

      *** priority life tasks

      *** housework/yardwork & maintenance

      *** hobbies & whatever else

      ** meta stuff about the system (where this list of lists would be written down in an analog system as a map)

      ** daily scratchpad list archive

      ** today’s scratchpad list

      Every day I use the system I create a scratchpad list. I move the previous sessions scratchpad list to the archive (or delete it) ripping out the pieces I want to keep and inserting them into the relevant permanent list.

      I am describing a system I implement digitally but a simple version could be done with some notebooks and a pocketable small post it note pad for “today’s scratchpad list”. This system assumes you are using a seperate calendar or integrated date stamps for list items so they can be displayed in a calendar view.

      Not claiming it’s original but this is the perspective that makes other more complex and fleshed out systems make sense to me as I can translate how that particular system maps to this abstracted recipe.

      In a fully built out task tracking and thinking system the **tasks subheading is more of note system with tasks sprinkled throughout that a collating mechanism creates a list of just actionable TODOs tasks from.

      How do I sort out just an actionable task list? With org mode tasks have a flag and are retrieved into a list of just actionable tasks by a basic software function, but there are ways you could translate this too into an analog equivalent with bookmarks in your task notebooks marking active TODO tasks.