Is this the best todo app?

integrated cal, todo list, journal, inbox

For the greater part of the past decade, I’ve struggled with having a busy schedule, while at the same time being surprised at how little I actually get done.

I came across various productivity systems such as the Getting Things Done method, or bullet journaling. But out of everything I learned from them, there’s one thing that helped streamline my schedule more than all the others.

During the course of a week, my todo list of ~40 items that had been sitting there for months was cut nearly in half.

There’s nothing worse than waking up in the morning with a large overdue todo list. The todos pile up and become burdensome just by the sheer number of them.

One day I thought enough is enough. I took my whole list of todos and my weekly calendar and went to battle. I applied the well known divide and conquer strategy. I split my todo list into small chunks and began plugging each of them into my calendar: these get done this Monday, those on Tuesday, those on Wednesday, etc… The result was fantastic.

Even without managing to complete 100% of them each day, half my todo list quickly melted away.

It turns out that planning a the whole week at a time makes you far more productive than leaving your todo list to spontaneous impulses.

Try out the Plan&Journal app. It’s FREE

If you’re on your iPhone or iPad, click bellow to download the app.

Or, if you’re on your computer, open up the App Store on your mobile device and search “Plan&Journal.”