Get Everything Done

Sounds brilliant doesn't it? I wish I could remember what it was!

james220:

Can you please give a link to the May 9 system? The name doesn't ring a bell with me.

Thanks for posting the link. I don't think that was the system I was referring to in "An Effective 'No List' System? Yes!". But since it was posted over three months later I presumably thought it was better!

But I subsequently developed a similar system which I consider to be slightly better. The main problem with "My Current No-List System" is the lack of entry points for new tasks. For instance if you have four repeating tasks, you have to do something with all four before you can enter another task on the list.

My improved system gives an entry point whenever you re-enter a task on the list. When you re-enter a task you leave one space. You then enter a new task in the space. The list is then actioned in the order the tasks appear on the page. You can only enter new tasks in this way, unless there are no tasks left on the list at all.

It's difficult to give a comprehensible example with the formatting options allowed in these comments. However here goes!

My list reads:

Read book
Walk
Learn Vocab

I action the first item on the list "Read Book" and re-enter it at the end leaving a space:

Walk
Learn Vocab

Read Book

I then enter another task in the space:

Walk
Learn Vocab
Process Photos
Read Book

Then I continue to do the tasks on the list in list order, i.e. the next task I work on is "Walk".

But I've yet to find a No List method that can rival the speed obtained by the best Long List methods.