Recording what you need to do or be working on can help alleviate some of the stress of balancing work and school. To-do lists can assist with breaking down projects into smaller, more manageable parts. Benefits of writing down to-do lists include:
- Satisfaction of checking things off
- Clarifying through writing down
- Setting reasonable expectations
- Seeing progress
There are several ways to organize to-do lists:
- To do, doing, done
- By class, work, etc.
- Short-term vs. long-term
Tools for to-do lists:
- Google Keep: cross-platform and incorporated into Google calendar
- Outlook Tasks: incorporated Outlooks email and can link to iPhone reminders app
- Apple Notes: cross platform for Apple users
- TeuxDeux: simple, user friendly to-do application
- Monday.com: visual project management tool
- Trello: a web-based list-making application
- Todoist: a web-base list making application
adapted from https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=348177&p=7022175