There are only so many moments in a lifetime, and just so much you can and should do. The todo-mania is not any different than the bookmarking OCD or the million-open-tabs infestation. There is no one canonical todo list just an almost immutable archive of lists that I recorded over the years. I'll keep coming back to this file once every while, and realize that most things I recorded are no longer important. Once something is recorded, it is off my mind. I keep them in a big text file, tag them with a date, and keep them there. The todo-list of an average home-maker today would be more complex than that of the princes from a few centuries ago. They are just a psychological mechanism to cope with the anxiety of an overly complex world. Most todos are meant to be recorded and discarded. This doesn't mean you need to see the following tasks, yet (software can hand them behind the tasks they depend on or by date or similar). If you've only recorded the task "purchase materials" you don't have a concept of what follows it (and it remains in your head). Those end up becoming ordered in some fashion (purchase materials, then the rest), or running in parallel (hire the artist friend and paste it into the produced journal, send out a single sewn signature to family and sew it into the final product, assemble the rest and wait). Tasks: Purchase materials, assemble, hire artist friend to produce neat drawing on cover, distribute for signing by family (both sides). Project: Make a journal for my sister's wedding anniversary. ![]() ![]() This is where projects and other things come into play. So the desire is to be able to record a target task, and obscure it (so to speak) behind the preparatory tasks. Shopping for my weeknight dinners is different than shopping for my Saturday night party (literally different tasks if they're time separated). It's a natural way to break down problems (why am I shopping for food if I don't know what I'm shopping for?). THEN you start working backwards on the dependency chain. The problem (crap, way late to post, sorry) is that you may record the task "Have friends for dinner".
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