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Sarthak Sharma
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Show off your Todo List 📝 🤓

Hello Productive folks !!

🎉 Welcome to 2019 🎉

The Todo list is a super essential step for anybody to enter the realm of productivity. Most of us used it or try to use it at some point in time. 😃

So in this post why not we all show our Todo lists (Digital or Analog) to help those who are looking for an efficient Todo list system.

I personally use an Analog system that looks like this

It's a purpose-driven version of Bullet Journal called Purpose Book. I have explained it in this medium article below.

What do you use? 🤔🤓

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Fábio André Damas

I use a very simple analog checklist system where I just write down the things I eventually need to do, tag them with a few symbols, and make sure I resolve them as soon as possible. If something stays open for long I force myself to re-write further ahead of the notebook to re-think its importance or I just drop it.

The few icons I use are:

  • Little todo checkbox for normal tasks
  • ❗ next to the box for urgent issues
  • ✔ for completed
  • ❌for canceled
  • > for migrated (meaning it was ether rewritten further ahead or in other form)

I'm still evolving it as I need but I think keeping it as simple as possible is what is making me stick with it.

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Sarthak Sharma

Simple things often work. Nice 😊

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Grzegorz Ziemonski

My system is basically the same as this with an extra question mark sign/icon for important questions that I have to answer later.

Simple and analog rocks!

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Sarthak Sharma

Absolutely 😊

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David J Eddy

I am a heavy user of Google services (mainly due to the integration of tools) so I use the built in ToDo feature of Gmail. If I place a date on an item the item is then added to my calendar (that I also use daily). Not the fancies but it keeps the list in front of my eyes as a constant reminder of what I need 'to do'.

to do

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Abraham Williams

I find Tasks Android app to be well done too.

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Never knew about that feature! Thanks for sharing. I'm a big fan of Google Keep but it can be a bit inflexible.

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Jedidiah Ogwumike

I give myself 2 tasks a day.

I may add an extra one if both get completed early in the day.

Google Keep App works fine for me.

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Lindsey Kopacz

I honestly use a calendar to time block my to-dos. I haven't gotten mine organized yet for my current goals, but I would love to post here once I get that up :)

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Sarthak Sharma

That's cool. Waiting for that 😊

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Casey Brooks

The Microsoft Launcher for Android has a basic to-do list built-in that I prefer, which I use mostly for personal tasks or for setting a notification time on reminders. I don't need to sync it to other devices or maintain a rich history of past tasks, and nits right on my homescreen so it works perfectly for me, even if it is pretty basic.

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Sarthak Sharma

Nice Launcher 👀

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Casey Brooks

I love this launcher, been using it for years. Highly customizable, a lot of great hidden features, and just overall a really solid, well-built and well-thought-out launcher.

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Utkarsh Talwar

Been meaning to try the MS Launcher on my device for a while. Now I have another reason to. Thanks!

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Filipe Ramalho

I use Microsoft Todo and define a big task like "Redesign Homepage" and then make speficif subtasks like "Save old data", "Consider new Stack", ... With that system I not only plan out the task, but also can check progess. If I want to remind myself of something I also use a task on Microsoft Todo, but if it's something regular I use Alexa.
If I start a new project I make a list just for that project, so the Tasks may look like this

  • Daily list
    • Get groceries
  • Important list
    • Phone physician for results
  • Project 1
    • Redesign UI
      • Compare other UI's
      • Consider new Design language
      • ....
  • Project 2
  • Project 3
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Utkarsh Talwar

I've been using Todoist for a while and I'm quite happy with it. It has everything I need, a nice interface, and cross-platform compatibility so I can quickly add/review tasks whether I'm on my phone or my computer. I have the browser extension on both Firefox and Vivaldi. :D
This is what my to-do list looks like.


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Lasse Schultebraucks

I also use Todoist. Recently I wrote a blog post about how I use Todoist and Google Calendars to plan my days.

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LV 🏳️‍🌈 • Edited

I use Dynalist to keep track of everything. The moment I think of something I need to do, I write it down a bullet point. This can be a simple as "remember to remove X off JSON payload" or as complicated as "write an api route that does Y." All bullet points go on the same level. They get crossed off when complete and every couple days at random I clear the completed tasks.

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Sarthak Sharma

Cool, that's like a digital simplified Bullet Journal. 😛

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Rob Hoelz

I'm a big fan of TiddlyWiki - it serves as my todo list/personal wiki/developer journal. It's super customizable, which can sometimes prevent me from checking off some of the items on my todo list =)

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Sarthak Sharma

Wow, that's new.😯

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Ankur Biswas

For long I've been using bullet journel for my ToDo lists. But as you mentioned on Medium everyone changes their journel style after a while. The Purpose Book do a great job keeping tabs of my ToDo's.
So now my ToDo list look like this:-

Top 3:-

  • Add Facebook Login.
  • Add Twitter Login.
  • Finish My Page Design.

ToDo:-

  • Meeting with Eva on 14:00.
  • Post an article on Dev.to

Goal:-

  • Complete DevOps

Purpose:-

  • Become skillful Full Stack Developer