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Planner

Planner
Originally uploaded by Nialljd.

posted by Niall @ 8:21 AM 0 comments

Analog does it..for me

It has been a while but finally feel I have made progress. Like many people I feel tied to a comuter, PDA, Blackberry or mobile phone. All this may well be self inflicted but it definitely affects how effective I am, my concentration levels and probably more importantly my interactions are less effective. Putting a large part of my work onto paper has given me 'permission' to break the tie and be more fluid.

The tools are:
moleskin 18 month planner
moleskin notebook (large plain or grid)
a leather book cover
a selection of page markers
a selection of index cards

(photos to follow)

The planner holds all day and time specific stuff. The right hand page I use for actions that need to be done that week (any none time specific actions are captured on index cards by context or by project ). Also on the right hand page I keep a running log of cross references to notes in the big book ( the larger moleskin is page numbered and dated).

In the larger moleskin all meetings, brain dumps , phone calls etc are captured. I tried to use the tab hacks but found it slowed me down.

I use a series of page markers to mark specific pages

red for unprocessed actions (once processed flag removed)
yellow for a waiting for un processed
green for project info to be processed
grey for info on planned meetings (where I might mind map a meeting in advance)
blue for work in progress

The markers help pick up key information for the weekly (cough ok irregular weekly) review.

So far this works.....

posted by Niall @ 3:35 PM 0 comments