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by latexr
1001 days ago
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> Do you have any suggestions? You do: > experience has shown that I am at my most productive with a structureless .md file and pen&paper setup. Seems like you already know what works for you. Do that! But since you’re asking, I’ll give another shout out to pen and paper. The thing I like about it is that it becomes physically overwhelming. That is key. When you dump information into a digital system you can avoid it and leave it to linger and grow indefinitely, but a bunch of papers strewn around your desk are harder to ignore. They begin to pile up and make working harder, at some point forcing you to deal with them. This means grabbing what’s around and starting to cross out what is not important after all (or was already done), and reorganising remaining tasks into new pieces of paper. The physicality of the process forces the cleanup step. At one point I moved from separate pieces of paper to a notebook, but the principle remains: the filled pages to the left are the equivalent of the scattered pieces of paper. As that side of the notebook grows, I flip back to cross out tasks and rip the pages where everything is done. That step is important because otherwise I wouldn’t have an intuitive sense of how many tasks are left behind. |
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What works for me is one single file with all my tasks ordered by priority, I can resort them comparing the top task to bottom until I have all my tasks sorted by priority, when a new task is added it's easy to tell where it slots in.
I find this easier to maintain, doesn't give me paralysis and things at the end can be culled if there too long.