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[!summary]Keep your task system simple and limit what you capture so you make real choices about what to do. Each morning write a short paper list, move unfinished items to a weekly note, and use focused time blocks to finish tasks. Regularly remove unimportant tasks, schedule big work and creative thinking, and review your week.
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last year me and my wife were looking around a homeware shop in the Cotswolds, when I spotted a weekly spread on paper. Eerily similar to buying the bullet journal method all those years ago, I knew that I had to have it and give it a try. Capturing tasks on that weekly spread was the first time in a long time that I was able to successfully keep up and on top of things. I kept it up for a while, but have since moved to travellers style notebook where I have a dedicated calendar notebook as well as a writing pad. I have thought a lot about what changed and why this method proved so well for me. I don’t believe it is an analog vs digital debate specifically. What I have put it down to is you are forced to be much more intentional when you only have a limited space to capture things. The error in moving away from the Bullet Journal method was in the fact that a digital tool made it easier to collect tasks whenever they came to my head. Whilst I thought that was great at the time, it is actually damaging. The friction of writing something down by hand means that you are more likely to make a decision to decide that I won’t do a certain task. You limit the things that come into play and that are in your line of sight, and I think this is CRUCIAL.
La fluidez en el registro no siempre es positivo. A veces la fricción te fuerza a pensar antes de proceder y eso es bueno en ciertos contextos.
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One of the things I was worried about was not having the ability to write down “someday” tasks that I wanted to do at some point in the future - but I think ridding your mind of the burden of these things is healthy. I have found no downside to not having a longer time list of things that need doing. I simply decide to do it at some point this week, and if it isn’t going to be finished this week then I don’t think about it at all.
Otra cosa para pensar, también consecuencia de agregar un poco más de fricción a los sistemas de registro de tareas: no registrar cosas que “eventualmente me gustaría hacer” libera espacio mental y alivia la sensación de estar perpetuamente atrasado o al debe. Es similar al consejo de que la lista de lectura como un flujo: si no se leyó, moraga.
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6. Schedule creativity - Whilst tasks generally are something you can tick off and complete, I have found that scheduling time to “think about X” has been really beneficial. This is a very recent thing for me, but it has already proved to be incredibly valuable. It could be as simple as sitting and thinking about a topic, making some notes or mind mapping.
Esto es algo que he pensado hacer pero no he logrado. Creo que sería muy útil considerando el trabajo que estoy haciendo con Obsidian.