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6 To-Do Lists for Occasions and Methods

Two kinds of list that a plain page cannot be. The occasion lists come pre-filled \u2014 31 wedding tasks in five stretches, 30 moving tasks from eight weeks out, the Christmas gifts with bought and wrapped boxes, twenty things before school starts \u2014 because the point of a template for an event is not having to think of the tasks. The method lists change how you sort: two questions per task that compute an Eisenhower quadrant, and half-hour blocks that turn a list into a schedule.

Six pages

Pick the occasion, or the method.

Wedding to-do list in a rose palette with a script title and five timeline sections from 12+ months out to the week of, each pre-filled with circle-check tasks

Wedding To-Do List

31 tasks pre-filled across five stretches, a percent per stretch.
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Moving to-do list with five timeline sections from eight weeks out to moving day and after, each pre-filled with checkbox tasks and notes and due columns

Moving To-Do List

30 tasks from eight weeks out to moving day and after.
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Christmas to-do list in red and green with a gifts table showing bought and wrapped checkboxes, and three short lists for cards, food, and decorating

Christmas To-Do List

Gifts with bought and wrapped boxes, then cards, food, and decorating.
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Summer to-do list in sky blue and amber with a hand-lettered title, twenty numbered circle-check lines, a trips box, and a before-school-starts list

Summer To-Do List

Twenty things before school starts, a trips box, days of summer left.
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Priority to-do list with three top-3 lines and a task table with urgent and important columns, a computed quadrant column, due and notes, plus by-quadrant counts

Priority To-Do List & Eisenhower Matrix

Urgent? Important? The quadrant computes; the matrix prints.
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Hourly to-do list with half-hour rows from 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM, a checkbox and task cell per block, an unscheduled list, and a notes box

Hourly To-Do List

Half-hour blocks from 7 AM to 6:30 PM and an unscheduled list.
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Two different flavors

Pre-filled saves the thinking; methods change the sorting.

An occasion list earns its place by knowing the tasks before you do: the marriage licence has a lead time, the freezer has to be defrosted, the cards have to be mailed before the food is bought. Those lists are checklists we wrote so you would not have to, and the blank lines are for what is particular to yours.

A method list earns its place by changing the question. Urgent and important are two different things; a slot is a commitment a list item is not. Use them on the weeks that need them, and go back to the plain daily list when they do not.

The plain lists
Free To-Do List Templates
Daily, weekly, monthly, simple, checklist.
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Plan the money too
Wedding Budget Template
Typical shares, deposits, balances, cost per guest.
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Six methods, explained
How to Write a To-Do List
Capture, choose three, sort, slot, checklist, review.
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Frequently asked questions

Are the wedding and moving lists complete?
They are the spine — the tasks almost every wedding and every move involve, in the order they need to happen — with blank lines for your own. Each stretch shows its own progress in Excel and Google Sheets, which is more useful than an overall percent when the wedding is in ten weeks and the three-months block is untouched.
What is the difference between the priority list and the Eisenhower matrix?
Same idea, two forms. The priority list asks Urgent? and Important? as dropdowns and computes the quadrant — Do now, Schedule, Delegate, Drop — with a count of each. The matrix is the four boxes on a page for sorting by hand. Many people do the matrix on Monday and run the list in Excel the rest of the week.
When is hourly time blocking better than a to-do list?
When the list keeps not fitting the day. Putting each task into a half-hour slot forces the arithmetic a list never does — five two-hour tasks do not fit in eight hours — and the unscheduled column shows what is still waiting for a slot. It is the sheet for days that need a shape, not for every day.
Updated through September 2026