I just created a Google sheet on my phone dedicated for this. Tasks go down a column. Bolded tasks are marked. I turn the background black if the task is completed (no strikethrough feature on the app). Orange background indicates a task I’d ideally like to do next, but can’t—as an example, grocery shopping, but the store’s closed.
I never use the star feature on Google sheets, so I’m using it to make this readily accessible. I star the spreadsheet, which then is readily accessible by clicking the triple-bar menu and selecting the “Starred” folder.
One nice thing about this approach is that I can create sub-todos. For example, let’s say that one of my ongoing projects is studying aging literature. I might have a list of 10 topics I want to dig into. But I don’t want to clutter up my list of daily tasks with a gigantic running list of specific aging subtopics. So I create a separate tab on the spreadsheet specifically for “aging research,” and list topics there. I can do this for tasks related to PhD applications or any other task that routinely occupies a chunk of my day and doesn’t have an enforced order to the tasks.
I like this because it’s using software I use already, so the interface is familiar and flexible. It’s free. And there’s little risk that Google is going to vanish and take my todo list with it.
I just created a Google sheet on my phone dedicated for this. Tasks go down a column. Bolded tasks are marked. I turn the background black if the task is completed (no strikethrough feature on the app). Orange background indicates a task I’d ideally like to do next, but can’t—as an example, grocery shopping, but the store’s closed.
I never use the star feature on Google sheets, so I’m using it to make this readily accessible. I star the spreadsheet, which then is readily accessible by clicking the triple-bar menu and selecting the “Starred” folder.
One nice thing about this approach is that I can create sub-todos. For example, let’s say that one of my ongoing projects is studying aging literature. I might have a list of 10 topics I want to dig into. But I don’t want to clutter up my list of daily tasks with a gigantic running list of specific aging subtopics. So I create a separate tab on the spreadsheet specifically for “aging research,” and list topics there. I can do this for tasks related to PhD applications or any other task that routinely occupies a chunk of my day and doesn’t have an enforced order to the tasks.
I like this because it’s using software I use already, so the interface is familiar and flexible. It’s free. And there’s little risk that Google is going to vanish and take my todo list with it.