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by erichurkman 3131 days ago
I use a few sets of checklists using the app 'Things' (mac/ios). I separate out work vs. personal and try to not have them overlap in terms of time.

My work lists:

- 'today': things I need to get done, or follow up on, today. This can be items in other lists (it's a filter of a tag with a shortcut key).

- 'tomorrow': I use Apple Script to move 'tomorrow'->'today'. 'tomorrow' starts with a few fixed repeating tasks (email, pipeline, a few others) and an ingest of my calendar for tomorrow via Apple Script. Every evening I go through tomorrow's meetings or events to take notes and mark up things I need to cover.

- 'interviews': a task per person in my pipeline, with ongoing notes. I change the due date as interviews progress with next steps. Keeping it in a single todo item gives me a quick overview of people.

- 'near': things I need to do in the near future, < 2 weeks

- 'future': things I should do in the future; reviewed weekly to move things forward or ideally delete things, I keep this capped at 30 things