“Your Reminders list is too long”
You wrote down all the things you need to do. Now you’re staring at the list. The list doesn’t fit on the screen so you’re thinking, there might be something I’m not seeing. So you scroll up and down. Then you try dragging. Productivity gurus tell you “your list is too long.” But the things you need to do are still there.
What if you thought of it as a task pool? It’s not ordered yet, right? Worse, it looks ordered, but it’s ordered wrong. So you’re trying to drag things up and down and fix the order on the screen, or you have to read the entire list every time you want to pick a task.
I don’t know about you, but seeing the entire list distracts me. I was just about ready to focus on something and instead I learned that I have 12 other things to do. That’s the last thing I need! I only need to know what’s the one thing to start with.
I do it differently. Instead I compare reminders, two at a time, “which of these is more important?” Then my phone shows me just the top reminder. It’s a free app I built called Task Compass.