**An under appreciated tool for doing things right every time while freeing you up to think about the hard stuff.** Checklists are incredibly simple tools that don’t get enough credit for what they do. They enable you to doing the basic, most fundamental but vital things correctly **every time** while freeing up your mind to think about the harder stuff. They reduce [[Noise]]. > [!tldr] 🔑 Checklists are not meant to be comprehensive how to guides. They are quick and simple checks to help skilled people who already know what they are doing. See what makes [[A Good Checklist]] There are two basic approaches to checklists. See [[Read, Do or Do, Confirm]]. Checklists can be either to ensure the right things are done, or to ensure the right conversations are had. See [[Communications Checklist]] Not all checklists are simple lists. See [[Other Forms of Checklist]] Checklists reduce errors of ineptitude. See [[Ineptitude and Ignorance ]]. ## Other Reading Checklists are the main topic of [[The Checklist Manifesto ]], essentially the main topic of [[Work the System]], and would fall into the ‘Resources’ part of the [[PARA Method]]. **** ### Source - [[Work the System]] - [[The Checklist Manifesto]] - [[PARA Method]] ### Related - [[Standard Processes]] - [[Don’t Reinvent Things]] - [[Other Forms of Checklist]] - [[Communications Checklist]] - [[Read, Do or Do, Confirm]] - [[A Good Checklist]]