The ToDont-list

You may have heard about todo-lists, things that you or a team plan to do organized in a list after priority. A todont-list is the opposite, it’s a list of items that you plan to either not do or stop doing.

It may sound silly (and well it is to some extent) but it’s a recurring theme in almost any type of work that you or your team are doing things that maybe you shouldn’t or that someone else should do. It can be cases of bad habits either personal or in a team or items that are taking too much priority because other parts of an organization is pushing them. In these cases it can be a good idea to collect those things on a list and track them to make sure that they don’t get done.

The todont-list follows the same logic as the todo-list but opposite. Items start as checked and your goal is to uncheck them. A todont-item can have something similar to a deadline but for the todont-item it’s called an avoid-until-date. An item that has an avoid-until-date set can’t be unchecked until that date.

If this is silly enough that you want to test it out, check out the prototype or fork the code on github.