Any notebook can be used for a checklist notebook. However, some notebooks favour the checklisting layout such as Word notebooks and the Checklist Notebook. Grid layouts also make good check listing notebooks. Checklist notebooks are great because you can keep you list all in one place and get a sense of satisfaction as you tick things off.
Checklists aren’t just to do lists. Checklists can make things easier when you do repetitive tasks to either stop you forgetting things, to keep you focussed on the task at hand or to avoid the need to reinvent the wheel each time. These types of checklists are often personal to you and the way you work/do things etc which is why you may sometimes want to DIY and use your own notebook for a checklist notebook.
By way of example I use a pocket notebook for checklists for managing and promoting things on twitter. There are loads of good resources on the web and what I do is streamline this advice so it is relevant to me and my goals and style and then these go in my checklisting notebook.
Keep it straightforward. A good checklist should be short and actionable. A few bullet points can make a great checklist to get things done.
You don’t have to have a dedicated checklisting notebook, why not include a checklist section in your other notebooks.
Do you use checklists? If so what do you use them for? Share in the comments.
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I love checklists and bullet lists! I use a checklists nearly every day, and I especially use one for packing when I travel. When my children were small, I used to make them a checklist too, using pictures next to the words, so they could pack their own things.
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I have a really hard time with checklists, especially to do lists. In theory they really help me focus my mind, but in practice they make me feel obligated and anxious and I put off stuff even more. So I just keep a list of “things I should try to be productive at, but it’s okay if I don’t just choose one you feel like working on” (very general like writing, art, social media, etc. and I don’t check things off of it) and a list of stories ready to be written or in progress, which I guess is sort of a check list, but is more a reminder like the first list. I do cross stuff off once I’ve drafted them or abandoned them though.