I used to use this Greasemonkey script for my todo list, but it stopped working months ago with no fix in sight.

A good place to start looking for things that let you pretend to be productive is lifehacker, and they do not disappoint.

http://lifehacker.com/399985/five-best-to+do-list-managers

Some factors I’m considering:

• I don’t want to register for yet another service (Remember the Milk)
• I don’t want to use something unless I already use it on a regular basis (Outlook)
• Must exist “in the ether”. That is to say… I have to be able to drop it and pick it up wherever I go (pen and paper)
• That kind of leaves plain text… todo.txt

Althought todo.txt sounds nice. With dropbox, my todolist can go whereever I go, but I use Gmail more than Notepad. I think I’ll try using a gmail draft message(s) for now. I might even be able to make it one of my quicklinks.

So I just realized that the way I do dishes is influenced by basic supply and demand. Here’s the skinny: I don’t wash cups and utensils. Because I believe my roommates are too loose and wasteful in the use of both. So by refusing to wash them, I artificially decrease the supply of available cups and utensils, thus creating a perception of a scarcity of resources, and forcing them to use fewer cups and utensils.

I also do all sorts of ROI analyses when I do dishes. How to arrange them so that they maximize the excess falloff water (stack them from largest size to smallest, and in increasing concavity). And how to minimize the total amount of effort required to get an item clean (if no lipids touched it, clean it right away, otherwise it will get dirtier before it gets cleaner).

I need more free time.