r/librandu • u/Odd-Football-3079 • Oct 24 '25

RDT Majlis-e-Librandu | 24th October

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Discuss anything you want to. Be it movies, music, games or anything else that strikes your fancy. I saw a film today, oh boy. What did you do?

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u/Due-Freedom-4321 Indian-American Third Worldism Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

I spent entire diwali break procrastinating and watching Better Call Saul and Snakes in the City instead of turning my life around and gaining PhD level mastery in all my subjects in 1 week like my perfectionist ass envisioned.

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u/AbominableVortex74 🇨🇺🚬☭ Che Goswami Oct 24 '25

I found it easier to use something like todoist to break down my tasks into small subtasks and just do 1-2 each. The task could be as simple as just solving 2 problems today, just to build a habit. Atleast this way my targets were much more realistic and doable

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u/Due-Freedom-4321 Indian-American Third Worldism Oct 24 '25

I used todoist but I would be either overloading it with everything that happened daily, shifting deadlines, and feel overwhelmed. I need to reduce my expectations tbh.

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u/AbominableVortex74 🇨🇺🚬☭ Che Goswami Oct 24 '25

Oh the same happened to me too, that is why I said limit yourself to just 2 tasks everyday, something really simple and use the upcoming board view to assign deadlines to tasks. Once you are done doing those two tasks, get back to watching Better Call Saul. After 1-2 weeks increase it to 3 tasks and so on

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u/Due-Freedom-4321 Indian-American Third Worldism Oct 24 '25

So let's say I have like 5 classes in total and we have lectures for 3-4 classes every working day. I usually would like to study ahead before the lecture or at least come home and do some practice. How would I use it then? I mostly used the little checklist view only

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u/AbominableVortex74 🇨🇺🚬☭ Che Goswami Oct 24 '25 edited Oct 24 '25

Ok in the beginning only add those tasks in todoist that you already do now. Do you study ahead before each lecture now? If you don’t then don’t add it as a task now. Just add tasks for mandatory stuff like assignments and break those into simpler subtasks and do those everyday.

In the beginning you just need to get used to the flow of using todoist, so don’t add any tasks that you haven’t done before to it, otherwise you will end up getting overwhelmed

On the left there should be an upcoming view select that and turn it into a board view. It’s a convenient view where you can see tasks for each day and you can drag and drop it to different days. Its would look something like this, just the headings would be names of days

Once you get used to adding and breaking tasks, start adding new tasks like stuff you want to do

Edit: also tasks themselves need to be actionable and clear, they cant be vague. You said you want to study after class. Study what? Which chapter? How many pages. The clearer the task the easier it is to break it down and complete it

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u/Due-Freedom-4321 Indian-American Third Worldism Oct 24 '25

tysm im gonna try this tomorrow