My To-do List: Item Types

I wrote about the way I use lists some weeks ago and said that I basically use two different lists to organize myself:

A list of open projects
A to-do list

If you looked at the second one, you would basically see three kinds of items:

1. One time (or a few times) tasks

They belong to a specific project and, once they are completed, I forget about them. Some examples of my current open projects are:

Resource center
Trip to San Diego
Digital competencies framework
MOOCs
Winter vacation

2. Items that doesn’t qualify exactly as a task

I create categories for this kind of items, so maybe I should call them sublists. Some examples:

Products I need to buy
Books I would like to read
Things I have to discuss in a phone conversation with someone
Topics I could cover on my blog

3. Recurring tasks

Here I put stuff I want to do in a regular basis as part of a category you could call My life. For example:

Run three days a week
Play tennis twice a week
Check email twice a day
Read every day
Control family finances once a week
Plan my week every Monday

When I complete one of these tasks, Todoist is set to create a new instance for the next due date. If I miss a workout or some other recurring task (and, with my busy schedule, it happens more than I would care to admit), then I postpone it manually.

I should talk about the risk of planning too many tasks. It will be another time, though, because I have some other stuff to do today 😉

Picture: IMG_0712 (Copia) (Luigi Mengato)