Seven Steps to Fixing Stalled To-Do Tasks

DO NOT add tags, create projects, or create other to-do infrastructure to manage your to-dos better. This is procrastination disguised as productivity.

I’ve embraced this sentiment in recent months, and it has been an unlock. It’s better to have a long-lived task with an ever growing list of notes capturing progress than to break it down into smaller tasks that get “done” each day, without getting the real task done.

This probably breaks down for delegation amongst complex teams. But for personal focus management, this is the way.