Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Do what now?

I keep my to-do 'list' in the form of many small scraps of paper in my back pocket. Every morning I rifle through them to see what I need to do. I throw away (recycle) the ones that I have done or that no longer need to be done. I look sheepishly at the ones at the bottom of the stack that have been in there for 5 months, the paper turning into a silky mess. I take a few out that I plan to do that day, and often wind up just putting them back. Sometimes I can't read what I wrote on them.

The other day, I was writing some task down on a slip of paper, but I was distracted by something else. The next day, I was looking at my slips of paper, and there was one that just said, "Karma".

What's my action item here?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Remember when Carmack used to have his public to do lists? I still use that format, with the little - and +'s.

Gregory Michael Travis said...

Me too!

unquoted symbols:
- on the left at head: const/quote
- on the left otherwise: var
- on the right and var on the left: var
- on the right otherwise: global

I even have an emacs key (control-tab) to change + to - and back.

Anonymous said...

I think it might have said "korma", as in "learn how to make korma".