When receiving some important tasks from my boss, from my folks and friends, I usually note them down in my notebook, especially the most complex and urgent ones, describing all the steps I must take in order to complete a task and marking the urgency priorities of the task with big red exclamation marks. But when recording the tasks on paper I tend to distort the task details and break the task order. Plus I usually forget to take a look into my notebook up to the very deadline.
It's much more convenient to use computer reminder programs for organizing myself, but as long as computer is not always available, some special organizing device should be invented for storing organizing activities.
To my mind, the optimal decision is an electronic hybrid of alarm-clock and dictaphone that would allow recording the tasks precisely after they are delivered to me verbally and reproducing them in original sequence right due the deadlines set, no matter how