How many do you have? I have 9 personal, not business, to-do lists, available across devices.
I’m great at making to-do lists. Getting anything done, not so great.
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I don’t have to-do lists, but long fukkin lists of passwords for everything imaginable I’ve signed up with an ID.
I track passwords in browser. Works fine as long as don’t forget that one password.
How do I remember that password? I take the first letters from a favorite book quote, add my own numbers and special characters. Then can always find password anywhere as long as can find that book.
I use the same beginning, following by a number code determined by the name of the website. The problem is that many require special symbols, caps, etc., and the requirements are different for every freakin’ website. So what was once a great system has gone to crap.
By the way, I think there should be a bucket list for long-time residents of Taiwan, like the following:
a) Cycle Wuling (from either side)
b) Go scuba diving at one of the islands
c) Go surfing in Taidong
d) Do something at Kending (not sure what should be, but I haven’t even been there)
etc., etc.
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Yeah, same experience. Writing a list is easy, not looking at it ever again afterwards is even easier 
The exception being my todo-list for work: A plain TXT-file where I write down all the things that still need to be done and then work on.
And I bet those passwords are easy to forget because they often look cryptic. And we have to register an account on every website. I need more accounts like I need used diapers.
Can’t believe you’ve never been to Kenting. It was the opposite for me. I had never been to Kaohsiung for the longest time because every time I went to Kenting I skipped over it.
The locals say there’re 3 things you have to do to qualify as a real Taiwanese: bike around the island, scale Jade mountian, and swim across Sun Moon Lake. I’ve never done any of them, though I’ve biked around Sun Moon Lake 
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I forgot about that one. Yes, I did it. But on a Saturday before the big event on a Sunday. About 1,000 swimmers and we had chips for timing.
Scaling Jade Mountain sounds like a great challenge. I don’t think I would enjoy cycling around the island. Too much traffic and other dangers, and too many flat areas that I would find very boring.
I might go this winter. Yeah, that’s something that should’ve been done long ago.
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I have 1 list
1 item
To do: to do list
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Most locals have done none of those.
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Most taiwanese can’t even swim.
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“To do” on a “to do list” is done. Or it’s not at the same time. We need an expert on cats to get involved here. You’ll thank me for it.
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I can’t find any stat to support my strong suspicion that this is incorrect. I assume you have some kind of stat to support this?
EDIT: 2010 44% of people could swim. Is that the stat you’re using?
Same here. Circumnavigating the island on a bike is overrated. It’s nearly 1,000 kilometers, but only about 300k of that (mostly in the eastern half) is worth riding. If it’s not the bragging rights you’re after, just go ride those 300k. Riding up to Wuling, which you’ve done, is more impressive IMO.
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I’m down to 7 to-do categories with about 150 tasks spread among them.
At 2-3 a day completed, and 2-3 a day added, I’m getting nowhere.
Meth?
That might mean you need to break your tasks down into more manageable subtasks. I suggest batching tasks of similar nature and also timing yourself so that it’s easier to estimate how long a similar task will take you next time.
Why not
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Go to the doc, tell them you have trouble focusing at work, you’ll have your lifetime supply of (pharmaceutical) meth .