Recently I have found that I’ve just not been getting the basics done in a timely fashion. I’m talking about really basic things like cleaning my teeth twice a day. So I decided to print off a list of daily basics each day and cross off each task after it was done. There is room on each sheet for extra tasks too. I’ve used this system for two days now and it works amazingly well!

To do lists on the computer have never seemed to work particularly well for me. Some time ago I read an article on the net which explained why to do lists on paper, and specifically on post-it notes, are better than digital ones. There are plenty of others that concur with the ‘paper beats digital’ argument. I think this one nails the reason why on the head for me: the paper list is physically far away from other distractions such as email and Facebook.