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What Does Your Projects List Look Like?

I'm feeling project-list-inadequacy. For about a year now I've flopped between a simple text-doc with nothing but a list of names I've given to projects and an Omnioutliner outline complete with an outcome and some rough project planning as subpoints. I feel like the outline gets too cluttered and blurs the line that should be between the project list and next actions lists. Then go back to the text-doc but there's no outcome statement to motivate my lazy butt. I could add outcomes to the text-doc but it would double in size and complexity.

So I'm curious, what is everyone else doing?

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Index cards for me, although...

Index cards for me, although somewhere I have a two-month-old list with a bunch of projects and nextactions written on it, and many of those things are finished by now.

 
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