One problem was that I tended to record a lot of items. I probably had about ten pages full of check-boxes. The list grew faster than I could knock things down. This built up stress when I flipped through the pages of my paper-based PDA. The satisfying check you get when marking a task as complete can be double edged when you have a massive number of empty check-boxes staring back at you.
As you progress through life, you find that priorities constantly change. This was pretty apparent with a check list that grows as fast as the U.S. government spends money. Over the months, items on the check-list became stale, or they just weren't needed anymore.
Another thing missing from this picture was that my items were pretty difficult to finish up on short notice. Items like "Save two months worth of income" just wasn't going to get done in a few minutes. While it's important to have long term goals written down where you can revisit them to make sure your life is still oriented towards achieving those goals, these tasks aren't helpful when laced between your day-to-day tasks.
Stay with me here - I've had political conversations with a few people, where the idea is submitted that new laws cannot be introduced without others eliminated. The general thought is that you keep government size from getting too out of control by limiting the laws it can legislate, and provides a means of removing laws that aren't needed anymore. I'm not saying I full endorse this idea. I'm trying to give an idea of what four or so things are looping in my mind at once.
This recipe was the inspiration for my latest fifteen-minute Monkeybars app - TinyTodo. TinyTodo allows ten items! That's it. Clicking an item immediately removes it. Changes are saved as they are made.
Once at the item capacity, no more can be added!Oh yeah, I think this shows off JRuby's unicode support. But wait! I'm not using 1.9! JRuby - It's the Ruby of the future.
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