karimould.dev

11/12/2025

How I do my to-dos

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Making to-dos is important for me because I forget a lot of stuff, and I don’t want to use my brain to remember what I need to do.

I tried every app to stay ahead of my to-dos, but…

I don’t know why, I like to write my to-dos in a nice notebook with a nice pen, where I can scribble them, mark them, and make the page look chaotic.

This worked for me, and I stuck to it.

I write my to-dos for one week.

Every Sunday or Monday, I write my to-dos for the week in my notebook.
If I need new to-dos, I just add them.

When I don’t finish a to-do in the week I planned to finish it, it goes to the next pages where I plan the next week.

Or I just leave it because it was not that important.

No rules for how I write them down or where—just two pages for a week, and that’s it.

This is how a week of todos could look like in my notebook

Work
- Review PR
- Onsite Meeting Wednesday
- Fix Backend Workflow Issue
- Frontend PDF Viewer
- Tests for PDF Feature
- Schedule call for POC
- Check Blob Storage costs issue
- Plan Release for Q1
- Inbox Zero
- Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Project Blog
- Write post about note taking
- Build note component
- Connect domain with new blog
Freelance Gig
- Schedule call
- Fix deployment
- Send invoice
Privat
- TAXES
- Buy gift for wife
- Send email to insurance
- Clean car