[emdeha]

Over the years, I've switched between several daily TODO lists. I used a plain sticky note in the beginning where I outlined all the tasks I had to do. After that I used Steven Covey's time management matrix, but I found that I'm not using all of its quadrants and some important and urgent tasks were never done on time. Currently I have a TODO list with two columns -- Making, for the long-term things I have to provide substantial amount of undivided attention to; and POSS (projects, organization, skills, social) -- for tasks which require frequent context-switching. It was greatly inspired by Paul Graham's "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" article [1].

For long-term plans, I keep a simple text file categorized by projects where I plan ahead for about one or two weeks and put deadlines for my plans. I derive these plans from my long-term goals, for which I store the big picture in various mediums (Trello, E-mails, text files, written conversations, paper, etc.)

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html