How Do You Keep Track of Projects?

With the long weekend behind us, hopefully some of the projects you wanted to accomplish have been crossed off the list. Poring through magazines and blogs we have a million and one projects that we'd love to accomplish but don't really have a system for keeping track of them. We were tempted by this journal, but how do you keep track of yours?

The Journal of Things to Make and Do can be bought through amazon.

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i make lots of lists on papers and write my big ideas in my journal... however i keep a running list of things to do or try in my apartment on my iPod Touch

An excerpt from the middle of the pack:

paint branches white for bedrm curtains
trader joe's chocolate croissants
folding step stool
french press
ornate mirror - paint frame - bedrm
trofast for recycling

i also keep running lists on there for specific stores.... ikea, target, etc... and things to search on craigslist and ebay...

i use google notebook to keep track of tutorials and how-tos that i run into online -- buying lists i keep track of with Remember The Milk. Google Notebook has a plugin that works in firefox so you can clip the page you are currently on and then tag it with whatever you want.

I keep a list in a notebook.

The list contains purchases and tasks. I cross them off as I go. As soon as I've crossed off about 3/4 of the list (or it's become cluttered with weekly shopping list items) I start a new list, carrying over undone items.

I used to keep a list of major projects/purchases taped up inside in my tool cabinet, but since that list has gone from about 100 items (5 years ago) to about 5 items, I can carry that wish list in my head (new kitchen counters, remove wallpaper and paint laundry room, paint downstairs hall, update shelving in sewing room).

Three letters: GTD. Personally, I use OmniFocus, but all you really need is some paper and folders. I have everything there, from diorama ideas to Cure steps.

OmniFocus here. I love it so, so much.

I use notes in outlook for the projects and fix-it items and then keep a binder with clippings and ideas.

I keep a numbered list on my work computer, with a shopping list below that, that I can strikeout when need be - so I can see that yes, I did in fact buy ModgePodge though I can't find it on my shelf (so look harder). I print it out when I need it.

I also started keeping a shopping list in my phone's To Do feature for things that occur to me at night, on the go, etc. Toothpicks, eye droppers, "take rice upstairs." I also have longer ideas listed in there under separate entries of long term projects, but not a whole lot.