Busy Times, Desperate Measures

Today (five minutes ago) I witnessed old to-do lists being ripped out of a notebook in rage. They were thrown to the side, ripped up, and even bitten at one point. (?) Things from the past are sometimes painful to think about (especially long to-do lists) and I can understand why someone would desperately try to get them out of their life.

Multiple Lists on One Page

Multiple lists on one page in order to save paper. Individual items on lists are crossed off when completed, whole lists are crossed off when no longer relevant.

Listen to the owner of this list talk about their process >>>

A List Notebook

I always buy or make little books specifically for writing lists. I keep them for about a week until they get misplaced. I find them later and then wonder why I thought it would be a good idea in the first place.

Here is an example someone gave me of a notebook purely for listing. Clearly it's been flipped through and shoved into bags over and over because the spiral binding is very bent and the pages are difficult to turn.




















The thing I like about these lists is that they all seem to be in different handwriting, but they are actually by the same person. I find myself doing that too.























Many types of lists are in this notebook, and it's nice to see a few items crossed off.