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To-do lists are a great way to keep your life organized and track goals. For instance, my to-do list for today is ‘call my accountant; buy milk; wait home for the courier to drop off shopping at 1PM; finish a book review;’ and that’s basically it. I felt pretty good about what I would accomplish — until I learned how Leonardo da Vinci went about his ‘mundane’ tasks. 待办事项能够起到非常棒的计划生活、追踪目标的作用。比如，我今天的待办事项就是“致电会计；买牛奶；下午一点在家等快递；完成一部读书笔记。”大致就是这样。完成一个事项我就会有一种很棒的成就感——但当我知道达芬奇的“日常”时就完全不这么觉得了。 Leonardo, one of the most brilliant men to have ever lived, diligently documented his inventions, experiments, and interests which included painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography — to name only a few. Buried in one of his many notebooks dated from the 1490s is a to-do list, which NPR had translated. “It is useful,” Leonardo wrote, to “constantly observe, note, and consider.” 达芬奇是世界上最最智慧的人类之一，勤奋地记录下他的发明、实验以及他的兴趣爱好：画画、雕刻、建筑、科学、音乐、数学、工程学、文学、解剖学、地质学、天文学、植物学、写作、历史学和制图学——这仅仅只是其中几样而已。他的一些笔记本可以追溯到15世纪90年代，其中包括一个待办事项本（目前已经由美国国家公共之声翻译完毕）。达芬奇写道：“这真的很实用，可以不断遵循、记录和思考。” | 
