Task Management Pain Points – The Overachiever
macsparky.com/blog/2016/2/task-management-pain-points-the-overachiever
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Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
If you are facing a task list that has hundreds of entries every day, you’re doing it wrong. I think the most common cause of this overload is our technology. Back when I used to write my task list every day longhand in a Franklin Planner, I never wrote more than 20 tasks in a single day. I think it was something about the act of using pencil and paper that my brain just accepted the lunacy of overloading myself. However with computers, there is a certain amount of abstraction and that can work against us.