Creating a workflow with todos

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planted Jun 18, 2021

Writing your tasks down helps you to remember them. Choose a daily highlight to-do for the day. This need to be achieved today. You can do more to-dos if you want to.

If you are not writing down your to-dos, you probably should. It helps to remember all the stuff you need to do. However, you should not overdo it. I do not write down every daily task. So stuff like doing the dishes or cooking is not found in my to-do list. But tasks that are either important daily to-dos, like taking my medicine, are. The other to-dos are one time tasks that I need to do at a later time.

To avoid having this huge, frightening list of to-dos that is difficult to fulfill, don't push yourself to hard.

Choose one daily highlight. This is the task you have to do today. This should obviously be the most urgent one. You can do more tasks if you feel like it. But as long as you achieve your daily highlight, you can go to bed with a feeling of accomplishment.

This daily achievement helps to you stay on track and encourage you to get better each day.

You can manage your to-dos however you want, but I prefer a to-do app on my phone. Having a constant reminder on my home screen helps me to remember my tasks and makes it easy to add new ones.

Tasks.org is an open source Android app that fulfills all my needs. I can add and prioritize tasks, put them into different lists, make them repeatable, and it has an awesome widget.

In addition to your todos. I recommend to generally create a habit of writing stuff down. To keep a clear head and still hold on to your ideas.

One way to learn how to create a system with your to-dos is the GTD methology.