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For a number of months, I felt I was doing my To Do lists wrong, just letting too many things languish undone for way too long.

I think I found something that helps: making smaller lists.

Prior to last week, my "active" stuff (vs a few lists of longer term things) was held in just two lists: "Time Sensitive" and "General". And each list was pretty big, dauntingly so, and since they never got down to zero the motivation to even pluck the low hanging fruit wasn't there.

The app I use for Todos (2Do) does 3 three things well: recurring events, solid synching, and most relevant to this ramble, viewing all lists in a single scrolling view, without having to click/tap to navigate around.

So for a few days I've been having categories like
* Hot Hot Hot
* Grind Management
* Time Sensitive
* Quick Blog Stuff
* Shopping
* General
* Porchfest

Having these smaller lists with a few entries each - even if/when I don't get them all done, it's less discouraging than a big monolith of stale old things.

I'm always still interested in how other people manage their stuff. Most people don't seem to talk about it as much as I do.