How many things did you put on your todo list yesterday? And how many did you actually finish?
If you're like most people, the gap between those two numbers is what wakes you up at 4am.
Most productivity apps have no ceiling. You can add 8 tasks, 20, 200. They'll all be there when you open the app tomorrow. The list is honest about how much you said you'd do, and brutal about how much you didn't.
Lansia caps you at five tasks per day. Three on the free version. That's not because longer lists were too hard to build. It's because we tried longer lists for years before the app existed, and longer lists lose.
Here's what we found. A list of three to five tasks gets done. A list of fifteen gets nibbled at, then ignored, then rewritten on Sunday with a different color pen. The longer list isn't more ambitious. It's just more anxious.
The cap also forces the question every productivity system should force. Out of everything you could do tomorrow, what are the three to five things you would actually be glad you did? That's the question. The answer is the list.
You don't need 47 quadrants and a tag system. You need to decide on tomorrow tonight, and then go to sleep.
So, what would your three be for tomorrow?
Open the app. Write them down. The whole thing takes a minute.
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Up to five tasks for tomorrow, written tonight. $4.99 once, no subscription.