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Using a list to manage executive function

I use a fairly well-developed todo list system to manage my workload during the day. Some of the details are unusual, so I thought it would be worth sharing.

Day Plan is actually a bad name for it in its current state, but I’ve been calling it that for so long that the name has become part of it and I don’t want to change it. It’s been my experience that any TODO list system I use will acquire an ugh field around it that gradually turns it into a thing I’m guiltily avoiding. All of the details are designed for what I think are fairly general reasons, but I don’t expect you to have exactly the same sets of needs and anxieties as me, and it’s evolved in response to mine.

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