One of the blogs I read had this excellent link to a programmer in Italy who has a very simple way for managing to-do’s using Evernote.
From his post.
My system
- I write my TODO list using Evernote, in a single note called TODO. Evernote is great for two reasons in this context: it’s fast because it is a resident program, but gets synched, so you have your TODO list in all your computers, in your phone, and so forth.
- The note is split into three sub parts: daily, weekly, monthly.
- The last two items in the daily list are: “read the weekly list if it is monday”, “read the monthly list if it is the first day of the month”.
- Every time you need to insert a new todo list item, just insert it at the end of the appropriate sub-list, daily, weekly, or monthly, depending on the urgency you have to do this, or simply where do you think it is more appropriate for the item to stay.
- READ THE DAILY LIST EVERY DAY once you sit in front of the computer <- this is the core of the system. Don’t do nothing before. No emails, no news sites, nothing. Read the list.
- When appropriate, move items between sublists. For instance if you are reading the monthly list and something is urgent now, move it in the daily part of the list.
- When needed, remove items, because you already completed the task or because it is no longer relevant or a priority.
