Last year I came across the Bullet Journal technique. It’s billed as an analog journal for the digital world. It is a combination of rules that my make my work journals into efficient daily organizers and quick references for days and months in the future.
This past fall I started my first Bullet Journal as an experiment. I found that it is great at helping me keep track of a myriad of tasks. Plus, I enjoyed working in a physical journal that compliments my digital work. So today, my first full day back in the office for the new year, I started with a fresh journal. Here’s to a productive 2015 and my first full year of Bullet Journaling.
Charley Sexton
Very cool! But, too analog for me. I like having my project information available on multiple devices (phone, iPad, laptop) because I never know when I’ll need to access or modify it. However, I love the Bullet Journal system structure. I use a rudimentary version of this in Evernote. I’ll study this more and find a way to add some of this concept to my current system. Thanks for sharing!
@mwender
I totally see where you are coming from. For the past several years, I’ve worked to make my task management completely digital. However, once I got familiar with Bullet Journaling, I took advantage of my favorite parts and merged it with my mostly digital habits.
I like analogue task management for the following use cases:
With Bullet Journaling, I’m able to capture all of the above in an easy to search format. Plus, I like the visceral feel of having a tangible history of some of my work during the day.
All this being said, I still rely on the Mac App Things for a lot of my digital tasklist. For example, Things is great for allowing me to create a task that links directly back to an email in my Gmail, thereby helping me maintain #InboxZero.