How you approach or create your to-do list can make a big difference. Experts weigh in on how to write — and tackle — a to-do list to make it best work for you. As we head into the new year, maybe you ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about women in business and issues surrounding women at work. We’ve all fallen into the trap of trying to do too much at ...

Nearly two-thirds of professionals write to-do lists, but 41% percent of all to-do list items never actually get done, according to research from the project-tracking software provider iDoneThis. In ...

You may not think your hastily scrawled to-do list has “an irresistible magic,” but Italian philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco would have disagreed. Eco held up this simple practice, which humans ...

Delete, strikethrough, checkmark, or the old-fashioned pencil on paper. You definitely know that feeling you get when you can cross an item off your never-ending to-do list. But that accomplishment ...

This story was originally published on Jan. 4, 2023, and has been updated to include a rerun of the podcast episode. When I looked at my to-do list recently, I noticed that it was kind of all over the ...

We rounded up some of our go-to to-do list tips, including making time-based goals, sorting tasks into categories, and ditching the list altogether. Share on Pinterest There’s nothing quite like the ...

In a world filled with electronic devices, I still get great satisfaction by crossing out items on a handwritten to-do list. In fact, I find that I am more likely to complete a task if I write it down ...

A new bedtime to-do list, courtesy of sleep researchers at Baylor University: 1. Write a to-do list before bed. 2. Go to sleep. 3. Sleep better than all the non-list-writing people you meet tomorrow.