Not sticky notes, but plain old notebooks are what works best for me. About 10 years ago, moleskines + GTD [0] or Bullet Journal [1] were all the rage, but I on

Not sticky notes, but plain old notebooks are what works best for me. About 10 years ago, moleskines + GTD [0] or Bullet Journal [1] were all the rage, but I only started appreciating such a system in grad school. Personally, I use a very informal system, somewhat influenced by Bullet Journal: * Write down almost everything could be relevant to your work/research * Use spacing to separate notes and use dates as headers. (I find dates to be better than page numbers for referencing, but your mileage may vary) * If a note is a "task", put an empty checkbox next to it. Tick the checkbox when the task is done. * When empty checkboxes are too many and/or scattered across the journal, strike them out and rewrite them, under today's date (this is known as a "migration" in BulletJournal-speak). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_journal