![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) simont |
Fri 2010-12-10 09:39 |
Another really important point I forgot to mention in my last comment was: sometimes the list of things to manage are all things I have to remember about at particular times, or in particular circumstances, or that the next time I'm doing some other thing I have to do it in a particular way.
Lists work well when you're operating in 'pull' mode: you know you need something to do, so you go to the list, pick off the next thing, and make a start. When you finish that one, it's back to the list.
But in 'push' mode, when the various things I have to remember about all need to grab my attention in particular, different, confusingly overlapping sets of circumstances ... if I were to use a list to remember all of them then I'd have to consult the list all the time just in case there was something on it relevant to the current situation, and that would (a) be a huge expenditure of effort, and (b) not work anyway because after checking the list 99 times with no results my eyes would glaze over and I'd miss the thing I should have spotted the 100th time. |
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