I feel your pain, and have tried lots of digital and paper systems. Forgetting paper sucks, so I do digital.

Specifically, my task management system is a text document, one task per line, broken three sections and using special formatting for scheduled and repeated tasks.

My priorities are minimising the time spent "doing productivity" and minimising what I need to remember. Combined with a calendar, this works well for both.

## Section 1: The things I'm doing today:

- E.g. "Walking desk treadmill fuse - replace"

## Section 2: Scheduled and recurring tasks in ascending date order:

E.g. "0206 Design monitor holder"
E.g. "0207 **Feed Zimbabwe, +4d"

0206 means I'm doing it on February 6. Scheduled tasks for today get their date stripped off and moved into the today block.

The second example is a recurring task (the **). Whenever I'm moving it up into "today", I also schedule it again for 4 days later. Otherwise my snake gets hungry.

But actually most of my scheduled tasks aren't things I need to do. Instead they're things I'm expecting other people to do, with enough context that I know what to do if they do them and what to do if they don't.

## Section 3: A long list of tasks

This is mostly a memory dump that makes it safe for me to forget things. From time to time I pull things out of it and do them today.