#138 — Fri 02 January 2026 by Evan Chen

Okay, to get this in writing, my New Year's resolution is to make my task management system actually say what I mean to do. That means:

1. task next should show immediate next tasks, not a laundry list of things-to-do-at-some-point. Tasks that won't happen until tomorrow or later should be scheduled for future or someday.
2. Daily routines should be completed in dijo, or marked with X if I need to skip a day.

If both things are done correctly, then as a corollary, my Google Calendar should show a schedule of things to be done in task ready and dijo (this is one of the daily routines in Dijo).

I feel a bit apprehensive because I never paid much heed to task management before, cf XKCD 874. But I also feel like my to-do lists have gotten so long I can no longer have them in my head. So I want to see if this helps me focus on a single task at a time while not having to spend headspace thinking about the other $n-1$. (Well, even if it doesn't, if it increases my dijo success rate it's still a win.)