January 13, 2025

Checklists vs Todo Lists

In my Unsexy Checklist App message, I confessed to using plain text files to store my SOPs and checklists.

Long-time list member Tarrence D sent in a follow-up question:

How many text files do you use? How do you keep from getting overwhelmed at a long unending list of things you need to do?

Ah, good question!

To clarify...

My SOPs aren’t todo lists.

They are checklists that I only pull out when I have a complicated procedure to run, like recording video lessons for a course.

I keep my todos in a dedicated todo list app, which generally has fewer than 10-15 active todos in it, so I don’t get overwhelmed.

Thanks for the question, TD!

Yours,

—J

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