What kinds of lists do you make and use?
Some that I use:
The 25 random things about has become popular on one of the social networking sites. How about you?
I find lists inherently repugnant for some reason. When I see a list my eyes start to glaze over and I feel myself shutting down. They seem to stifle creative thought and scream “boring” at me. I don’t know why.
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When I work in some groups, I take notes and make lists. No one else ever seems to want to do this and it helps me pay attention. A nice benefit is that things get remembered and done my way. With other groups, I am quite willing to let them flounder.
One of the things that I like about computers is that a list can be maintained on a computer and maintained and revised.
Rarely do I use a shopping list unless I have plans to make something which needs many ingredients I don’t have.
I generally do make a packing list. I need the visual method of organization it provides, coupled with a place to set
everything so that I can easily compare the objects to my list. I am too absent-minded to rely on memory alone.
As for to-do lists–I often have a couple of legal pads close by to my computer, and the piles of stuff I’m working on, so
sometimes, if I have a substantial backlog, it is useful to make a short temporary check-off list.
On my desktop I have a document called “Things to Do”. When things get fraught and there are more jobs than I am liable to remember, I update this. It rarely extends beyond six items. Last time I looked at it, I hadn’t updated it for some months.
Mostly I just print out the email that needs me to do something, and curse and swear when some jobsworth has chained sixty emails into one sesquepedalian one which takes five or six pages to print out. One of these days I am going to start printing the screen image rather than the email. But I work from two or three email printouts on my desk.
That’s two things that would make my life easier if Microsoft thought of doing it: Having a “first page only” option on printing an email, and having a direct “print screen image”.
(Damn. I could probably program the second one myself. )
Maybe I’ll make a list. 
That program, on Macs, is called “Grab.” You can grab the screen, a selection of the screen, or a window, and just print that.
I’m great at making lists… and then losing them, or forgetting to take them when I go wherever the list was meant to be used.
I so do not understand this sentence at all.
I suppose I could make a list as to why.
I make lists of:
Things to do…
Things to buy/ pay for…
Animals I’ve eaten…
Where there’s liquor stores…
Places I have to go to / have been to…
Cemeteries…
Things I want to do but probably will never do…
etc.
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One of the more peculiar lists that we have is a list of Christmas Ornaments. But let me explain. We started buying these animal ornaments in a certain sytle at Pier 1 years ago and they had them for a couple of years. We bought way too many of some and not enough of others. If Pier 1 or anyone else ever sells them again, we can pull up the list and go shopping without having to dig through the boxes and find all the ornaments to do an inventory before we go shopping.
We should start an inventory of musical instruments in the house because even we would like to know.