I’ve read and used Getting Things Done. Also tried Bullet Journaling, Trello, One Note, Mind Mapping. Now I’m making my own daytimer using disc planners.
I’m debating going back to bullet journrlling and figuring out how to combine it with GTD.
I need an analog system of some sort. If I use digital, I just enter data and never look at it again. I’m retired, but am an artist with many projects to track at any given point in time. Also events and appointments.
trying to track projects in various media (nature journaling, trip journaling, visual journaling, fibre art, rug hooking, knitting, sewing, quilting).
Also being able to track the garden would be nice.
Plus I’ll be travelling in the future and need a place to gather info and organize the trips.
and Hubby wants to downsize again and move in a few years, so I need a place to organize all that too.
a place to track finances.
and I need a place to track all appointments and events. The standard bujo method (one line per day) is not enough space for me.
When I try to set an intention, as Ryder Carroll suggests in his Bullet Journal method, I come up with several - one for each area of my life.
The last time I bullet journalled I ended up with several separate journals for each area. Eg. The spinning journal was separate from the studio jourmal, was separate from the knitting journal, etc… It got confusing and time consuming.
So I thought I’d throw everything into a disc bound frankenjournal of my own creation this year. I am finding it…awkward.
Some pages aren’t used.
it’s difficult to find things that belong in the same category, but are spread across time.
It’s a large 8 1/2 x 11” format, which I now know is too big for me.
I can only fit two months in at a time. I have a need for 3-4 months ahead.
most future logs don’t have enough room for all the events/appointments I attend.
Now I write this all down, maybe what I need to do is tweak my disc bound journal. Design smaller pages and go for a smaller cover. Create designated areas within the one journal for different topics…with tabbed dividers separating them. . Or is it easier to just buy a Lechturm and start over again, trying to tweak the bujo system to make room for all my projects and events?.
Cranky, I have a Hubby who is not sold on gardening, so I keep detailed records on expenses and the amount of produce that comes out of it. I use the journal to figure out my costs to grow and make something, vs. buying it commercially.
Hubby has complained he never eats the home processed food in the past, but I notice several jars of it in the fridge. Plus I use it in dishes I make for him. Plus he definitely uses the herbs anytime we make a dish calling for them.
My gardening journal was where I kept canning records and food drying records…anything to do with food processing. Plus garden plans and seed starting plans, etc. I tracked my herb deck garden, as well as the raised bed garden.
When I was teaching, I designed all my own planner pages and used a 3 ring binder for them. So that’s always an option - you could have a garden section.
My current planner, which has a “revolution “ theme, has a series of blank pages in the back. I use a couple for tracking grocery costs and a couple for gardening stuff, a couple for books to reed and patterns I might buy.
My dh would spend a fortune at the garden store if I wasn’t firm about it. Lol I do track what we spend and he’s getting better about making do with what we’ve got.
I have been using a single notecard each day. I have a paper planner and a whiteboard where I write miscellaneous things that need to happen, and then each day I write on the notecard only the things I WILL ACTUALLY DO THAT DAY. If I’m not sure, I write it on the back so I don’t forget it altogether.
If I’m at work that day, I make a column for Work and a column for Personal. If I’m at home, I sometimes make a separate column for PM - things that can’t be done until a certain time (eg, the evening watering, or discussing something with a kid who is at school).
It’s a version of the “personal punch card” system of Reinhard Engels, who is basically just a guy who likes to have systems with cute names and talk about them on his website and podcast. (Best known for the No-S Diet, which does have a published book.)
I have found it really helpful for making choices about what I’m actually going to be able to get done in a day, and then committing to doing THOSE THINGS and not extraneous other things that need to wait their turn for the list.
I’d need a big post-it. But then, I don’t get everything done on my lists. Probably because I have problems setting priorities. Which probably comes back to my inability to set an intention for my life.
. Or is it easier to just buy a Lechturm and start over again, trying to tweak the bujo system to make room for all my projects and events?.