Why we’re all so obsessed with making lists

January is a time for planning – and for making lists. In fact, lists are having a ‘moment’, writes Suzanne Harrington.

Guess what, people — lists are cool. Yes, lists — once the preserve of confused individuals in the frozen peas aisle, and solitary obsessives with bedroom tans — are having a moment.

And not the kind of moment with which we have traditionally associated them — the dreaded to-do list — but a brand new incarnation that reflects our post-digital goldfish attention span coupled with our burgeoning narcissism.