How To Effectively Use A Task Manager.

When someone is first introduced to a task manager, there is often a sense that all their prayers have been answered. From the moment they install their new task manager on their devices, they can offload all the things they are trying to remember in their heads into an external source that becomes their “second brain”.

It can be liberating and exciting, and as you offload all those tasks and little reminders into your new task manager, it feels like a weight of expectation has been removed from your shoulders.

Yet, over a few days, the expectation of freedom your task manager gave you begins to crumble. You begin to notice you are adding a lot more tasks than you are completing, and the area where your lists (folders or projects) are kept is starting to look overwhelming.

You also notice you are still forgetting things because you haven’t entirely developed the habit of collecting everything. Thus, you begin a state of flux, collecting around 75% of your commitments and keeping the remaining 25% in your head.

There is a learning process whenever we learn something new or build new habits. We don’t read a textbook, and all the information is miraculously stored in our heads. Humans don’t work that way. There are incredibly complicated processes in play when we learn — so complex that even the smartest…