The Case Against To-Do Lists (and What to Use Instead)

To-do lists are supposed to keep us on task. It turns out they do the opposite.

Nir Eyal
Forge
Published in
8 min readOct 30, 2020

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Illustrations: Fru Pinter

Say you bought a new phone, but at the end of each day, without fail, the operating system crashed. Would you keep using it? Of course not. You’d take the phone back to the store, complain, and get a new one.

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Nir Eyal
Forge
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