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Read the book: Getting Things Done.
the reality is that we truly have "multiple" inboxes, and multiple ways to collect things to do.

As said elsewhere, you need a process. Set 2 goals:
1) To review your Todo list twice a day, morning and end of work day
2) To stick with it for 90 days (by which time, it will become a habit)

Trust me, I know the feeling. I use ActionOutline to take all of our meeting notes/action items, etc.
And my own Personal ToDo list. (I have 8 tabs for the 8 core clients). We also have to use Mantis for 2 clients, and Eclipse for 2 clients. Which means I will NEVER have a consolidated list.

After fighting to consolidate... Learning to accept that MY MASTER list is spread out. The only thing I need to review is the high-level. So in GTD words, each of these lists/systems becomes its own project (which it is), and I get to visit/manage them to make it work.

I am not perfect at this, but ACCEPTING this really reduced my stress. And now I even use Google Calendar Tasks for things like Grocery/Lowes lists, because the app links to my phone, and I check it when I go out...

So, along the path to have ONE LIST to rule them all... I learned one process to manage the lists made more sense. Especially when forced to use other peoples "lists"

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