I Started Doing More Once I Quit Writing To-Dos

As it turns out, the act of writing a list was not making me a more productive person

I’ve always loved a good to-do list.

To be fair, I love most kinds of lists — shopping lists, best-of lists, guest lists — but I’m not a big fan of bucket lists. I have been making lists for as long as I can remember. When I was little, I made lists of my homework assignments, of my friends’ birthdays, and things I didn’t want to forget to tell people. I kept a notepad and pencil on…