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Things To Do List Template

The list most people actually write is not a to-do system; it is a sheet headed Things to do with numbers down the side. This is that sheet, done properly: twenty numbered lines with a box beside each, a Don't forget box for the two things that cannot slip, and a Someday list on the right for the ideas that keep interrupting the real list. Print it as a pad, or use the Excel and Google Sheets versions and let the done count keep itself.

Three formats

Things to do, three ways.

Excel — numbered, counted

Twenty numbered rows with a ✓ dropdown; the Done line reads 2 of 6. The Don't forget box and Someday lines sit beside it.
Things to do list with twenty numbered checkbox lines beside a don't-forget box and a someday list
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Printable PDF

The notepad page: numbers, boxes, twenty lines, and the two side boxes. Print a stack.
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Word (.docx)

The same page as an editable table — type today's list or print it blank.
Worth knowing

Someday is where good lists send their clutter.

The Someday column is not a graveyard; it is a pressure valve. Every list collects items that are real but not now — the book to read, the friend to call, the garage — and left on the main list they turn twenty lines into a wall. Moving them right, in view but out of the count, keeps the numbered list short enough to finish.

Every few weeks, read the Someday lines. Some have quietly become now, some have quietly stopped mattering, and either way the list is shorter afterward.

The three-column plain list
Simple To-Do List
Checkbox, task, notes — no numbers, no side boxes.
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Today, with a schedule
Daily To-Do List
Top 3, the task list, and an hourly column.
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Blank paper lists
Printable To-Do Lists
Twelve PDFs in three looks.
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Frequently asked questions

Things to do list or to-do list — is there a difference?
In practice, people who write things to do are making a capture list: everything on the mind, in the order it arrives, numbered so it can be referred to. A to-do list is usually the sorted version. This template is built for the capture: numbers, no priorities, no dates, and a Someday column so the good-idea-but-not-now items stop crowding the real ones.
What goes in the Don't forget box?
The one or two items with a hard consequence if missed — the prescription pickup, the permission slip, the payment due today. Keeping them out of the numbered list means they cannot hide at line 14. If the box needs more than two lines, the day has a scheduling problem, not a list problem.
Can I use it for a things-to-do-today list?
That is the intended grain: one page per day, or one per errand run. Date it at the top, number the items, tick them off, and start a fresh page tomorrow with anything left over — copying an item forward is a useful nudge to ask whether it belongs on Someday instead.
Is there a printable version with more lines?
Twenty is the most that fits at a writable size on a portrait page, and it is more than a day's list should hold. For more, print two pages or use the Excel version, where you can insert rows and the count keeps up. The printable page has the blank list in three looks if you want a different style.
Updated through September 2026