[ttul]

This is an electronic version of a "bring forward" filing system that has been around for many decades. An older friend of mine showed me his "bring forward" file: it has a file for each month and also a file for each of the coming four weeks (labeled 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 because some months have five weeks).

He just puts things - like bills, for instance - in the appropriate folder depending on when they're due. And then once a week or month has passed, it gets rotated to the back of the box. It's a great approach; a digital version would replicate the same concept and would be particularly useful if it incorporated the notion of attached documents such as invoices.

[jasonpeacock]

Yep, that's called "43 Folders" or a "Tickler File":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file

[wrentopher]

I'd love to learn more and see about incorporating this concept. Contact me on the site if you'd like to contribute suggestions.

[Fnoord]

How does this differ from week numbers (1-52)?

[ttul]

Perhaps it's harder to keep track of week numbers. I'm implementing the concept in Asana using their calendar project view. I put stuff in the calendar view as tasks and then in a board view of the same project, those tasks are simply in my backlog column.

[dkarp]

Week numbers a based on the start of the year, whereas as these are based on today?