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Presorting a big todolist(repeatedly) is waste of time!

That only applies for whoever uses like me a one big list for everything. I do that for example;: my list is very big. By the time I would be done sorting the list by urgency per task relatively, there would be a lot of new stuff already and then I have to do…

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That only applies for whoever uses like me a one big list for everything. I do that for example;: my list is very big. By the time I would be done sorting the list by urgency per task relatively, there would be a lot of new stuff already and then I have to do the whole process again, which just takes from my time of actually doing things and getting things done. That defeats the whole goal. so my idea is: instead of separately sorting your todolist, combine the sorting with the doing so that you never get stuck in sorting preventing you from getting anything done. That leans more towards just doinhg everything in random order, but, you can do better. aggressively presorting is bad because you might not even get anything done doing things in random order is also not optimal, obviously. the balance is to find a way to do things in a logical order, without having to presort the list Has anyone done something like this yet here yet?

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u/jonandgrey

Iamglad u are gettingitsorted inaway that worksfor you.

u/catboy519OP

If it doesnt work for you, you dont have to follow the advice.

u/iwantboringtimes

for you, apparently, sorting doesn't work well. am just pointing out that some folks do well with sorting, even repeatedly. I'm also having problem with... uh... just not doing something being labeled as a technique.

u/iwantboringtimes

different things work differently for different people when figuring out what works or not works for us, it is "less waste of a time" to just NOT assume that what works or not works for us would also apply to other people basically, mind our own business

u/Multibitdriver

You’re describing the problem that GTD solves.