Moving house without a spreadsheet
The bond, the boxes, the mail redirect, the bin night you will absolutely forget. Talk them in as they occur to you.
Moving is a hundred small things
Almost none of which arrive at a convenient moment. The mail redirect turns up in the shower, the spare keys while carrying a lamp. A sentence is faster than a spreadsheet and it works with one hand.
Whoever is helping can see it too
Share the list live and the person with the van ticks off what is already loaded. Fewer phone calls from the kerb, and the same box does not get carried twice.
Separate lists for separate rooms
Or for before and after, or the old place and the new one. Flick sideways between them. No folders and no nesting, because a move is confusing enough already.
Questions people ask
- Can I keep a few lists going at once?
- Yes. Make as many as you need and flick sideways between them. They are colour-coded, so the kitchen one is not the admin one.
- Can I paste in a checklist I found somewhere?
- Yes — open the share tray and use “Paste things in”. A block of text arrives as separate rows rather than one long item.
- Will it nag me about dates?
- No. There are no due dates, no reminders and no streaks anywhere in it. It is a list of things, not a system keeping score of you.