As many as you can handle, which may be one or none some days or weeks.
What I do recommend is having a context for all your lists, a lists of lists that connects these fearsome beasts into a shape that can be comprehended by an adhd/executive challenged brain, a tree formed from branches all held up by a central trunk (your list of your lists)!
Actually I think of it not as a tree anymore but rather the inverse movement, a river network of converging frivolous lists of small things joining together as tributaries to form a unified flow that combines all into itself in terms of daily executive function challenges.
A concrete example of this idea in digital form is org mode (which this perspective is inspired from).
** meta stuff about the system (where this list of lists would be written down in an analog system as a map)
** daily scratchpad list archive
** today’s scratchpad list
Every day I use the system I create a scratchpad list. I move the previous sessions scratchpad list to the archive (or delete it) ripping out the pieces I want to keep and inserting them into the relevant permanent list.
I am describing a system I implement digitally but a simple version could be done with some notebooks and a pocketable small post it note pad for “today’s scratchpad list”. This system assumes you are using a seperate calendar or integrated date stamps for list items so they can be displayed in a calendar view.
Not claiming it’s original but this is the perspective that makes other more complex and fleshed out systems make sense to me as I can translate how that particular system maps to this abstracted recipe.
In a fully built out task tracking and thinking system the **tasks subheading is more of note system with tasks sprinkled throughout that a collating mechanism creates a list of just actionable TODOs tasks from.
How do I sort out just an actionable task list? With org mode tasks have a flag and are retrieved into a list of just actionable tasks by a basic software function, but there are ways you could translate this too into an analog equivalent with bookmarks in your task notebooks marking active TODO tasks.
As many as you can handle, which may be one or none some days or weeks.
What I do recommend is having a context for all your lists, a lists of lists that connects these fearsome beasts into a shape that can be comprehended by an adhd/executive challenged brain, a tree formed from branches all held up by a central trunk (your list of your lists)!
Actually I think of it not as a tree anymore but rather the inverse movement, a river network of converging frivolous lists of small things joining together as tributaries to form a unified flow that combines all into itself in terms of daily executive function challenges.
A concrete example of this idea in digital form is org mode (which this perspective is inspired from).
https://orgmode.org/guide/index.html
Also Treesheets is a nice simple conceptualization
https://strlen.com/treesheets/
Treesheets resemble mind maps, which I use to organize thoughts, but not for lists.
Ok but still what are some more modular/limited lists like I’ve provided? What specific ones do you think are missing from my list of lists?
For me it basically breaks down to
Every day I use the system I create a scratchpad list. I move the previous sessions scratchpad list to the archive (or delete it) ripping out the pieces I want to keep and inserting them into the relevant permanent list.
I am describing a system I implement digitally but a simple version could be done with some notebooks and a pocketable small post it note pad for “today’s scratchpad list”. This system assumes you are using a seperate calendar or integrated date stamps for list items so they can be displayed in a calendar view.
Not claiming it’s original but this is the perspective that makes other more complex and fleshed out systems make sense to me as I can translate how that particular system maps to this abstracted recipe.
In a fully built out task tracking and thinking system the **tasks subheading is more of note system with tasks sprinkled throughout that a collating mechanism creates a list of just actionable TODOs tasks from.
How do I sort out just an actionable task list? With org mode tasks have a flag and are retrieved into a list of just actionable tasks by a basic software function, but there are ways you could translate this too into an analog equivalent with bookmarks in your task notebooks marking active TODO tasks.