Comprehensive year-end checklists for every role, goal, and situation. Track your progress with localStorage-backed persistence.
Last reviewed on October 4, 2026
All progress saved locally — your checklists persist across visits using localStorage
By externalizing your to-do list, you free up mental bandwidth for deep work. Psychologists have long observed that unfinished tasks tend to stay on your mind (the Zeigarnik effect), and experiments by Masicampo and Baumeister (2011) found that writing down a concrete plan for an unfinished goal reduces those intrusive thoughts.
Visible progress tracking triggers the "endowed progress effect" — you're more likely to finish when you see how far you've come. Each checkmark releases a small dopamine hit.
In high-stakes environments (medicine, aviation, finance), checklists prevent catastrophic oversights. The same principle applies to year-end deadlines: tax extensions, benefit enrollments, college apps.
A checklist is great for tasks where you already know what to do and only need to remember to do them. For decisions about what to do, prose works better. Three pages here add that context to the lists above: