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Planning
Popular planning methods get retold the same way everywhere, and just as uselessly: the shape is described and the place where it falls apart is left out. This is the opposite. Where the method actually came from, what the research shows, at which point a list breaks for a real person, and what follows from that.
The 21-day habit is a retelling, not a finding
Where the number 21 came from, what Lally's 2010 study found about 66 days, and why one missed day does not break habit formation even though it breaks your streak counter.
Learn moreThe Eisenhower matrix falls apart at twenty tasks
Where the urgent-important grid came from, why every task on a real list slides into the same box, and the one question that works better than sorting into four cells.
Learn moreThe chores you always remember too late
Filters, boiler service, insurance renewals, smoke alarm batteries, passport validity. Everything with a yearly rhythm, set up once so you stop carrying it.
Learn moreA packing checklist you never rewrite
One list instead of twenty, sections instead of a wall of text, and adding to it the day you unpack. Why packing belongs two days out, not the night before.
Learn moreRecurring reminders, and why the 31st breaks half of them
Why every-two-weeks and every-Tuesday behave differently, what an app must do on the 31st in February, and why a missed repeat must not pile up.
Learn moreThe two-minute rule: what it is and how it works (there are two)
What the two-minute rule is and how it works: David Allen's version is about small tasks, James Clear's is about habits. They point in opposite directions.
Learn moreWhy a to-do list stops working after two weeks
An unfinished task really does occupy your head, but a list alone does not free it. Three reasons lists turn into storage, and what to do about each one.
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