How I Manage my To-Do List to Help Me Stay Productive

Dennis Cortés
6 min readFeb 2, 2018

The never-ending question of how you can make yourself more productive. Personally, I don’t think the same tactic works for everyone. It requires not only discipline, but a custom system of management to create a reference point in life.

Again, I don’t think there is a full-proof system that works for everyone. I have found it best to read and pay attention to how others work and brings bits and pieces into your own workflow to establish and improve your own system. Because this topic has been requested and I think I’ve started to get a good system going, I’d like to share that with you here.

NOTE: I use Notion.so as my hub for all my notes and to-do lists. I’ve been using it solely for the past year and it has been a life changer. I’ll be referencing it throughout this article and showing screenshots of the app. Not necessary to use it but I recommend it. They are a great team of people making a useful tool.

🐭 The Smaller, the Better

Before even looking at managing a to-do list, first rule is to learn to break up your to-dos. Try to never have a task on your list that is very broad, be sure…

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Dennis Cortés
Dennis Cortés

Written by Dennis Cortés

Head of Design @ Northstar, Musician, Content Creator, Software Tinkerer. I write about design, leadership, tech, and music.