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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" fi
by ttul 6y ago
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.
- wrentopher 6y agoI'd love to learn more and see about incorporating this concept. Contact me on the site if you'd like to contribute suggestions.
- jasonpeacock 6y agoYep, that's called "43 Folders" or a "Tickler File": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file
- Fnoord 6y agoHow does this differ from week numbers (1-52)?
- dkarp 6y agoWeek numbers a based on the start of the year, whereas as these are based on today?
- ttul 6y agoPerhaps 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.