Keep a "done" list, not just a todo list
At the end of the day I write three lines about what actually got finished. Looking back over a month of these is far more motivating than any backlog.
small things worth writing down, for your information.
At the end of the day I write three lines about what actually got finished. Looking back over a month of these is far more motivating than any backlog.
Invoices, replies, small fixes: one block on Friday afternoon. Context switching costs more than the tasks themselves.
Notes in plain text files outlive every app I have tried. Search works, sync works, nothing breaks.