Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
4 text files that go from vague life goals down to concrete hourly tasks:<p>- todo-year.txt : all goals for the year<p>- todo-month.txt : track subset of annual goals to finish this month<p>- todo-week.txt : track all monthly high-level tasks to finish this week<p>- todo.txt : daily task plan based on weekly plan. Switch tasks every 1 hour. In a day, I plan for about 4 tasks, so each task ends up getting about 2 hours.<p>Self-employed consultant here who has suffered from chronic procrastination after my daily routine became disorganized and unsupervised for some years. If I focus on only one thing for days on end, I feel I'm not doing much. The system above has helped me reduce (but not eliminate) both procrastination and distractions, and given me some satisfaction that I'm being relatively more productive.