Rather than to-do lists, I have found much help with the subtly different &quot;habit tracking&quot; systems. I personally use this one: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;productiveapp.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;productiveapp.io&#x2F;</a><p>I keep my threshold for daily success low. For example, I have a habit item of reading a book. All I have to do is read for, say, 15 minutes, and that suffices for me to click off that I completed the habit for the day, and I can go back to procrastinating if I like.<p>But I find that once I get started doing something that I actually want to do (such as reading a real book rather than surfing the web), then it&#x27;s pretty easy to continue doing it for a longer period of time.