I’ve found this website to be a very useful tool, so I thought I’d share it, in case it might help anyone else.
NowDoThis is very very simple. You take your to do list, paste it in the box and hit ready. Then it simply shows you one item at a time.
For me, if I see a list of ten things to do I start to feel overwhelmed and a little panicky. With this, since I only see one thing at a time, it’s easier to focus on the one task on the screen until I hit done.
Do A, now do B, now do c, etc.
The site works on mobile as well as desktop.
What I’ve been doing is using notepad on my phone and jotting down anyting I need to get done when I get home as I think about it. When I do get home I put it in the order I want to do it, copy and paste into the site.
And then I get stuff done.
Edit: they have a tumblr (@nowdothis )and there’s a couple more useful tricks
Putting a colon will create a new tab so you can have multiple lists.
If you put a time in an item like say ‘clean 10 minutes’, it’ll have a timer when that item.
And both those work on mobile too.