• A “super” introduction to task management to end “To-Do Hell distinguishes between tasks and todo. The term is used in different books at different times, or even mixed up within a single book. (I worry about what my book is about).

  • task : “action that can actually be taken”

  • Task list is a list of actions TODO: what to do

  • Includes schedules and projects

  • TODO lists may include things that are not tasks

Wife: “I feel like Task is bigger, Todo is more granular.”

  • Buying dinner” is a task, and “150 grams of pork” is a todo.
  • That’s the opposite of the definition in this book.
  • A theory that probably depends on what the first tool you used was called.
  • On the job, “tasks” are things that fall to you from other people, and TODO is what you bite into the actions you take.
  • I agree with you that we need two lists with different granularity.
  • I said, “What if it’s a list of grainy actions and a list of projects that may contain more than one action?”
  • Wife: “The project is a much larger ‘housing management project.‘”
  • Everyone is different in this area in the end, so it seems to me that you should define and use what works best for you.

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