I have, within the context of my job, things to do that will take various lengths of time and are of various priorities. If I get blocked on one it’d be useful to know what to switch to, and on.
I have, within the context of my personal life, things that I want to do that will take undetermined amounts of time and are of various priorities.
It’d also be nice to have a record to go back and reflect on when I did what. And it’d be nice to plan a little ahead so that I can decide what I hope to do next.
So… how do you do it? I am so bad at time management. Is there a useful software I can use (if so, is it foss)? Is there a way to keep consistent with my planner so that I don’t fall behind on managing my time management, without falling into the trap of spending much effort on creating a time management system that all my time is spent managing my time.
Send help :(
I designed my own weekly planner, updated and printed once weekly, that lets me visualize my time, list unstructured tasks, and journal a bit, all on one page a day:
Upper box are tasks I must finish today and the lower box is for tasks I’d ideally get to, but don’t have to, or just random notes. Tasks and dates beyond the one-week span just get thrown in a mostly-unstructured notebook, which I reference after printing a new weekly planner.
It hasn’t solved everything, but it at least frees my working memory from having to keep a to-do list.
What does Varia mean (“other”?) and how do you use the boxes in the time column? Care to share the files?
Correct, could mean other, various, “etc.”. Inherited heading from my previous journals, I’m not sure where it came from either.
For the time column, I highlight, shade, or “whisker plot” the cells of the relevant hours and minutes, then write in the task. Stole the idea from a Kokuyo planner, you can see it in action here.
And the file: https://codeberg.org/monovergent/my-planner-odt
NOICE! Thank you!
That’s slick in how straightforward it is. I like the offline element you get from printing it, too.