[chansiky]

I've gotten a lot of productivity out of todo lists.

I've tried Cal Newport's calendaring system as well, which is more or less a bullet journal + timeline and I thought it was somewhat helpful, but in the end it was too tedious.

The thing that doesn't work for me is that If I don't finish something within a timeframe, its not worth context switching. Other times it made no sense to take on a task at a specific time.

Sometimes its just better to have a simple list and wing the rest of it. Don't overcomplicate your life if you don't have to.

[ChildOfChaos]

It's intreasting in taking on new responsibilities I heard Cal talk about how this system wasn't working for him and he had infact switched to Trello for this.

So while he does still use this system, it shows that the system breaks if your work doesn't fit being scheduled that way.

All in all, the take away really is that a lot of generic productivity advice, is bad if it gets really specific about the tool, because you have to find what works for you personally and for the type of work you have and i think sometimes even that is different tools at different times.