I should add that one drawback of keeping your TODO list checked in is that people will hijack it and try to use it for scheduling purposes.
The times that I've shared my TODO list with a project manager, I've regretted it. This /could/ simply be that the kind of PM who makes a schedule based on snapshot of an engineer's loosey-goosey list is a clueless git who is not to be trusted. Even when I've directly shared the list and TOLD the PM "Look, don't make a schedule off of this, it's just a basis for discussion" the next thing I know the list has been enshrined in a PowerPoint deck and has become Gospel all the way up. Whereupon the following conversation happens with my mangler [sic]:
"Figby the PM is a clueless git."
"Don't worry. The PM management chain is trying to fire him."
"Couldn't happen soon enough. But what do we do about his PowerPoint deck?"
"I think we're screwed."
"Next time I'm going to line up the items so the first letter of each line reads 'FIGBY IS A CLUELESS GIT'" and then point that out in the scheduling meeting."
The times that I've shared my TODO list with a project manager, I've regretted it. This /could/ simply be that the kind of PM who makes a schedule based on snapshot of an engineer's loosey-goosey list is a clueless git who is not to be trusted. Even when I've directly shared the list and TOLD the PM "Look, don't make a schedule off of this, it's just a basis for discussion" the next thing I know the list has been enshrined in a PowerPoint deck and has become Gospel all the way up. Whereupon the following conversation happens with my mangler [sic]:
"Figby the PM is a clueless git."
"Don't worry. The PM management chain is trying to fire him."
"Couldn't happen soon enough. But what do we do about his PowerPoint deck?"
"I think we're screwed."
"Next time I'm going to line up the items so the first letter of each line reads 'FIGBY IS A CLUELESS GIT'" and then point that out in the scheduling meeting."
"(sighs heavily)"
My mom thinks I'm in high tech.