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My format for this is a daily checklist to begin my work. I also left space to gather tasks to do and check those off as I go. I log these "quests" on sticky no

• ChuckMcM 11y ago
  I use an engineering notebook and I've got a system of colored "flags" that has sort of evolved over they years. When I work on a project I journal it into the notebook, I add a 'prev' link with the page number where I last journaled it, when I create a new entry I go back one and add a 'forward' link to the page number where I came back. In the index I add a reference to the 'start' of the project. Very simple doubly linked list in ink. I used colored post-it flags (like those 'sign here' ones) on pages that I have some sort of follow up on. So red for action items, yellow for invention ideas, blue for waiting for something to happen (someone else's action item), etc. When I journal my current state I try to get as much as possible down of my current mental state. That way when I come back to it I'll be able to spin up quickly with the bread crumbs left behind. I've also done some of this with Evernote, and I'm playing around with OneNote on my Surface book and the stylus, I find it is the writing it down that is important to me.