I've been writing them forever and saving them for almost as long. I have lists for lots of different things. I recently ran across an old journal entry from 2004 about lists:
"...Lists are about organizing. Organizing thoughts, organizing events, times, places, people. We design lists everyday. Our to-do lists. Very designed. Not in appearance, but content. And I think that is what interest me about writing lists. It is not so much how they are designed but how they are composed.
Some are organized by day. Some by matter of importance. Some by time or schedule. Other lists are color coded. (My to-do list usually, but not always starts with something I have already done just so I can cross it off without really having to do anything at all.) Telephone Books, grocery store receipts, inventories of any kind, Christmas lists, birthday lists, attendance rosters, tables, charts. Lists on paper are designed differently than lists on a computer or in a hand-held device.
What else about lists? They are markers of sorts. They organize, categorize, segment and compile sometimes what seems to be complex thoughts or structures in a way that is easily understandable or comprehensible. How do the items in the list relate to each other? They are in the list together for a particular reason. Whoever wrote the list had a very specific set of ideas in mind when putting it together... or maybe not...."
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