My TODO list is a .txt file on the desktop
About six months ago, I finally reached a breaking point: my email-based TODO system stopped working.
It was beyond its breaking point for a few years, actually... ever since I my average daily email volume increase from maybe 5-10 'important' emails to deal with to 50+.
My email-based TODO system used to go like this:
- Email myself things I deemed important enough to do the next day
- Next morning, when I checked my email, knock off the top item in that list, and try to work down the list a bit
- Anything else, forward that email again for the next day
Once an item got maybe 5-10 Fwd:s in the Subject line, I would decide whether to nix the TODO item entirely, or move it off into a Trello board—in either case, likely to be forgotten forever.
I didn't say the system was good.
But it did work, before my inbox became full of actually important stuff relating to running my business.