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Have a piece of paper on your desk. Write down what needs to be done. Specific stuff. Use it for impromptu note taking or work breakdown through the day. Tick

Have a piece of paper on your desk. Write down what needs to be done. Specific stuff. Use it for impromptu note taking or work breakdown through the day. Tick off or cross out whatever's done. If you end up writing down something that's worth keeping around, keep it around in whatever medium suits it best. Then throw the paper away at the end of the day. If there are things not done, you can write them on tomorrow's paper if you remember them.

joegahona 4y ago
This is what I do, on an ugly post-it. Encourages me to get rid of it.
asciii 4y ago
I use to do this in school and tbh, should try going back. It was very much adapted from Cal Newport's method. Every morning I wrote all my to-dos on a index card from my Google Calendar. Anything that came up during my day which I could not finish within 5-20 minutes was written on the back to add to my calendar. This way I can focus on finishing the front side of the card and mindful of activities in the back. Now it's easier with the Things app (especially since I can email or have a script to send my todos to it directly). Highly recommend it!
lylejantzi3rd 4y ago
This is what I do, except I take a photo of the paper with my phone before throwing it away. I now have a timestamped record of what I did every day without having to manage a shelf of old notebooks. I know some people would consider having a shelf of old notebooks to be a perk, but I move around too much to want to lug around boxes of paper. That stuff gets heavy after a while.
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davchana 4y ago
I started doing that around in 2017 at my job. It was an office job. For work & personal tasks. I was using any random piece of paper, post it note, scrap paper. Soon I ended up with a bunch of papers held together with paper clips because some of the things were not getting transferred to next day. Then I started using a simple A5 size notebook. As heading, I used to out today's date in dd/mm then a empty square box underneath date, & then the phrase To Do. On page I would do a phrase YYYY-MM-DD DDDD & extend tail of lowercase Y to underline the whole phrase. Then simple blank square box, & the task. When that task is done, I would tick that box, & would write DD/MM on right side of line. When whole page is done, I would check that heading big box, & write DD/MM underneath the box. Soon in few months I came across Bullet Journal concept, & I adapted index page, & Specific Task pages (like Financial To Do, Programming To Do, Travel, In Six Months, Big To Do). It is fun.
Rapzid 4y ago
In the more lean environments I've worked in the experienced people often agree that "If we can't remember this thing in the future, it probably wasn't that important."

joegahona 4y ago

This is what I do, on an ugly post-it. Encourages me to get rid of it.

asciii 4y ago

I use to do this in school and tbh, should try going back. It was very much adapted from Cal Newport's method. Every morning I wrote all my to-dos on a index card from my Google Calendar. Anything that came up during my day which I could not finish within 5-20 minutes was written on the back to add to my calendar. This way I can focus on finishing the front side of the card and mindful of activities in the back. Now it's easier with the Things app (especially since I can email or have a script to send my todos to it directly). Highly recommend it!

lylejantzi3rd 4y ago

This is what I do, except I take a photo of the paper with my phone before throwing it away. I now have a timestamped record of what I did every day without having to manage a shelf of old notebooks. I know some people would consider having a shelf of old notebooks to be a perk, but I move around too much to want to lug around boxes of paper. That stuff gets heavy after a while.

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davchana 4y ago

I started doing that around in 2017 at my job. It was an office job. For work & personal tasks. I was using any random piece of paper, post it note, scrap paper. Soon I ended up with a bunch of papers held together with paper clips because some of the things were not getting transferred to next day. Then I started using a simple A5 size notebook. As heading, I used to out today's date in dd/mm then a empty square box underneath date, & then the phrase To Do. On page I would do a phrase YYYY-MM-DD DDDD & extend tail of lowercase Y to underline the whole phrase. Then simple blank square box, & the task. When that task is done, I would tick that box, & would write DD/MM on right side of line. When whole page is done, I would check that heading big box, & write DD/MM underneath the box. Soon in few months I came across Bullet Journal concept, & I adapted index page, & Specific Task pages (like Financial To Do, Programming To Do, Travel, In Six Months, Big To Do). It is fun.

Rapzid 4y ago

In the more lean environments I've worked in the experienced people often agree that "If we can't remember this thing in the future, it probably wasn't that important."