We love to-do lists here at Lifehacker. But checklists—routine lists of steps involved in a process—often get overlooked. However, they're invaluable for giving your mind freedom to think about the ...

In the ten years since Dr. Atul Gawande published The Checklist Manifesto, the use of checklists has proliferated in fields from medicine to investing. Gawande, a surgeon, made a particular focus on ...

When you have a stressful job like a doctor or a pilot, you’re faced with executing complex tasks everyday with very high rates of success. How do such professionals even get started when the task at ...

Checklists are essential to tackling a project thoroughly and completely. They ensure there is process cohesion between parties who may be involved in completing them and, most importantly, that ...

A surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital once asked why trained professionals keep making the same preventable mistakes.

I’ve gone for two years without a decent checklist/to-do list app for my iPhone. Wanted something I could take lists I made on my PC, share it back and forth, not be tied to either device, and look ...

Varvara Budetti is a deputy editor of data and automation at Forbes Marketplace. She specializes in leveraging automation and data-driven insights to enhance editorial workflows and content strategy.

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