Boring question of the day. How do you do your to-do list?

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My life's about to get more complicated and I don't think my current approach will cut it.

I'm starting a new project at work, increasing hours etc. Very lucky, very excited. Currently I keep a basic to do list on a Note type programme on my phone. It doesn't do reminders or anything complicated and I have to remember to look at it. I also do diary stuff on Google diary on my phone and that's fine but a bit cumbersome to enter - sometimes things end up on the wrong date and stuff as well. Haven't explored any other task/project software

I've always been good at losing hard copy notebooks but maybe I need to just do that? What works for you?

Something I have started doing recently is taking an A4 piece of paper and folding it into three columns, landscape. Title these 'Work', 'Business' and 'Home/Personal'.
This seems to work quite well.

The 'bullet journal' concept seemed like an additional layer of faff to me.

I find I have to write a physical to do list or it doesn't got done. In my current role, Outlook tasks don't work for me as reminders, having a notebook doesn't work for me, I need to have it right in front of my face!

So I kind of have a running to do list on an A4 pad on my desk, and as important emails come in or someone asks me to do something I jot down a brief reminder.

I also have a notebook I take to meetings, and I make notes in it with a highlighted headings. It's really handy to have everything in one place for future reference.

I'm not dealing with anything sensitive or confidential in this job though. When I did, I had to keep it all electronic so I wasn't carrying restricted material around with me. My work was a lot less hectic though so I had a nice system where I had one task for each case and I would update it as and when things moved along and set reminders.

Outlook to do list. Handy for incorporating email follow ups and OneNote to dos. Have not explored non-Microsoft apps as we are really locked down at work.

Hard copy here! 🙋🏼‍♀️ I like to write everything down, feel like I get it out of my mind that way and means I can (where possible) leave work at work.

Have a hardback notebook where I jot lists, things I need to do/buy/pack etc and a diary to write appointments.

Might look messy to some but I do think after a little while you come up with your own way of getting it all down, and it's only you that needs to understand it

I use Trello online and then a trusty post it with the 3 to 4 key things I need to achieve.

Thank you!! only just found all these replies. Hmm, I'm still thinking that hard copy might be the way to go. Might at least try it initially.

Wunderlist app. Quite good.

Write it down and use outlook calendar rather than tasks. I created another calendar which no one else could see and whacked everything in there. Also keep my inbox for emails I still have to deal with only - everything else filed away in folders

@StoorieHoose love that tip and can't believe I haven't thought of it before! I use Outlook Calendar but never thought to create another calendar just for tasks, thank you 😀