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Really_Need_To_Poop t1_jdht7vn wrote

Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

Use Todoist and integrate with you calendar so you can tell siri "remind me to do x at 2 pm" and it will auto sync to your calendar.

I pay for the premium subscription, it's great. Never be afraid to pull the trigger on a purchase that makes you more productive / organized.

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GotStomped t1_jdhstgo wrote

Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

I’m going to add to this:

Don’t be afraid to move things ahead of you run into speed bumps in your current task list. You’ll get to them and there’s no shame in getting one thing done today and move three tasks to tomorrow if it’s more likely that they’ll get accomplished.

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siouxze t1_jdhsc7v wrote

Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

Scheduling things like this does not work for my neuro divergent ass. I have 'The List' it's a $0.97 USD sprial bound notepad with a line down the middle of the page.

Left column is "do today" the right column is "not today". The list lives on the coffee table directly infront of my favorite spot to sit. I keep a running list of every. single. thing. I have to get done on the right. Every day I pick what I feel like getting done today. I flip to the next page and rewrite the list with the updated tasks, including rewriting the entire right column to try to commit it to memory.

Then I go and do a dozen things that aren't on either side of The List. I add them to 'do today' and cross them out for the dopamine hit. Everything gets done eventually. The most important thing is that the list CANNOT move from its place on the coffee table. Even when it was a glass top table with a shelf underneath where I could SEE the list sitting on the shelf. If it's not on top and in it's place, it might as well not exist.

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stardust_dog t1_jdhs6d6 wrote

Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

To add to this if you have a Calendar that pops up you can give yourself reminders on tasks rather that timebox for them although both are effective.

Sometimes you know something is important but you’re already on something important so you remind yourself about it in a few days so its not lost.

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xmachinery t1_jdhru55 wrote

Reply to LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

I've been using a free app (for personal use) called Reclaim that prioritizes tasks based on its deadline and puts it on my Google Calendar.

Created a task that will be due 3 days from now? Automatically higher priority.

Created a task that will be due 5 days from now? Automatically lower priority.

That task from 3 days from now changed to 10 days from now? Automatically lower priority.

Repeat this for like a hundred tasks with different deadlines and it will automatically put it on your calendar based on their deadlines. No need to manually do Tetris-like calendar shuffling.

Search on Youtube to learn how it works.

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egordoniv t1_jdhqrle wrote

Reply to comment by PhilosophyKingPK in LPT: Use your calendar as your to-do list. Assigning dedicated time to tasks increases the likelyhood of you acting upon it. by human_marketer

Sounds neat. I'll look into that. My girl and I have had our Google calendars synchronized, along with the shopping list for years, now. It's made so much of life easier and freed-up time to enjoy life without always stressing about what we forgot to do/get/whatever.

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