Comment by DavidPiper

I'm a big fan of Adam Savage's TODO system:

- Ordinary dot points (on a 5x3 lined card, for me)

- But instead of dots, you draw a little square

- When the task if part way done, you colour in half the square, corner to corner

- When the task is completely done, you colour the whole square

It gives you partial progress, and the same satisfaction of crossing something off when done, but without obscuring the text you originally wrote.