[kingsolmn]

I've heard for years that going "all-digital" can be bad for productivity, I saw it myself when I first started out as a freelance developer. For the first year or so after I went full time, only working from a desk in the garage I had problems keeping up on my to-do list.

But this is where I'll disagree with the premise of the topic. After about the year I had come up with a pretty good system of a to-do list and high-level notes in a Word doc. Maybe it's because I'm an engineer at heart and have a (sometimes) curse of always looking at a system and seeing the ways it can be improved. I will concede that I am not normal in that way, I have spoken to many freelancers that had to keep a paper to-do list to keep from losing tasks and notes. My real problem with using paper for to-dos and notes is that I've always been on the move, and I have severe CRS.

Returning to the tips from the article, these tips are new to me and I wish I had heard these back then. 10 years ago when I started out as a freelancer I didn't have any issues focusing when it was time to work. Now though is a different story! Lol. I'll be putting a couple of these into my workflow and habits. Thanks for posting this, @jonbaer!