About to-do lists

I've been trying, over the past year or two, to go electronic with my daily to-do lists. I've tried a whole bunch of things.

One that I liked, for awhile, was Teux Deux (cute, yes?)

Another that coaxed me to sign up - but that I never used - was Cozi, the family calendar.

Then there's ToodleDo.

TaDa.

Todoist.

Remember the Milk.

I've also tried Google calendar very recently.

And I've decided I don't like any of them.

There's something very satisfying about using yellow legal pads and a nice pencil for all my to-do lists. It's a sensory thing; I love the sound and feel of writing on paper. I like old fashioned wooden pencils, newly sharpened, but also like mechanicals for their ever-sharp points and never-used-up erasers.

My paper of choice is an 8-1/2" by 11" yellow legal pad. I consider it a significant luxury, coming from a home where the only scratch paper we had came junk mailings, blank on one side, torn into thirds.

The most satisfying thing of all, as any list-maker knows, is checking off the tasks as they're done. I'm one of those list-making-types who will actually write down an already-done task -- just for the fun of checking it off.

So I better go find my list and write down, "update post on blog" so I can check it off now.