As you can see from the example above, creating a to-do list from scratch is time-consuming. If you are short on time, you can pick one of the built-in templates as well.

Built-in templates. While Microsoft Excel has to-do list templates, I’m partial to the ones provided by Google Sheets. The built-in checkboxes are hard for me to resist.

Click on Done. Template If all this still sounds too overwhelming, feel free to check out the template we made, and make a copy of the sheet (File > Make a copy) to start using it yourself.