Martin Hähnel

The Closed List

A closed list approach to your ToDo-List works like this:

It strikes me that most of the task-management systems that actually work – perhaps even all of them – do so because they’re some version of a “closed list”. A closed list is just any list that has a fixed number of entries, as opposed to an endlessly increasing number of entries. If you have a practice of picking three “must dos” for the day, that’s a closed list.

So writes Oliver Burkeman in his most recent Newsletter. I totally agree. It's the reason why the little template we use on didyoudoit.lol (find out more here) is structured around your three most important goals for the week.