I don&#x27;t agree that it is not for creative work. I think most people just don&#x27;t understand the process of creativity enough to be able to think about it on a meta level.<p>Your TODO list is meant to be an extension of your short-term memory, not long-term. It&#x27;s not a log of activity. It&#x27;s not a planning document for assigning deadlines and figuring out project length. It&#x27;s low-friction reminders of whatever you need reminders for.<p>Haven&#x27;t you ever been working on something and realized there were two different things that had to be done, but in different directions? If you write a TODO for one of them and start working on the other (without writing a TODO for it), then you won&#x27;t have to break your flow just to remember the other item thereafter. It&#x27;s okay for things you do to not be on the TODO list, and it&#x27;s okay for TODO list items to only live for 15 minutes, so long as it is longer than it would live in your short-term memory.<p>A TODO list is not ever meant to be completed. Things go on it and come off it, it grows and shrinks over time, but it&#x27;s meant to be a living document. If you&#x27;re having problems with your tasks being too large and nebulous to appropriately use on a TODO list, then your first task is &quot;break job down into more tasks.&quot;