[backroomcoder]

Hi, I think its a case of 'each to their own' in terms of what works best. I have just completed a masters over three years of part-time study.

- A4 Pad to write to do lists and general thoughts / ideas. - Binders to store content worth printing. - Online Bookmarking Application to store bookmarks to online content, tagged according to the course and assignment. I found the 'view later' type functionality of some apps to be useful because I could just mark a few documents for reading later when I got home from work. - Google Calendar for noting seminar dates, submission deadlines and for loosely planning my output deadlines. - Google Docs for writing assignments sometimes, but mostly MSWord on my PC. - Notepad for the occasional bit of free-writing.

I would generally print my calendar off for any given month to keep me focused or remind me when I was falling behind. That would stay with me at all times, particularly for my dissertation. I tried the level of detail you suggest in point 1. but it never worked for me; I kept my planning at a higher level.