I stood there, gaping open-mouthed like an idiot, when I remembered after buying an iPhone that one of the reasons I’d postponed my purchase in the first place was because it had no task list. After a moment, I picked my jaw up off the floor and stroked the screen on my tiny new toy. This was an opportunity in disguise.

I had been somewhat overwhelmed lately and looking at implementing the Zen-To-Done idea of transferring just my most important tasks (MITs) to an index card or something. Well, I still don’t much like paper and pen, so I just put my MITs in an iPhone Note. Voila, problem solved. My three most important things to do are transferred every night from Entourage to iPhone Notes, and so far it’s a not-bad solution.

I do dislike having to replicate activities, like typing the tasks in another place, and then deleting them back in Entourage at the end of the day, but in a way this could be good: I’m forcing myself to evaluate my priorities every day, and I’m not piling too much on myself. Having that added step of retyping information is a nice barrier toward adding too much to my list. :)