During a recent episode of The Pen Addict podcast #657, they talked about Bullet Journaling and how it is a useful way to not let task management get out of hand.

And thought it was a good time to revisit how I deal with the divide between analog and digital task management.

For me it works way better (most of the time) to capture things on paper, than digital, because it is quick and I don’t have to leave what I was doing or move focus in any way.

But it works way better for me to keep organized lists of tasks in a digital form.

This is where things get weird.

I prefer to have my “hit lists” on paper. This is just me looking at the task manager or my daily plan (I’ll get to that after) and filling out like 30 ish minutes of “stuff”. That I just do one after one. Until I’m out of stuff to do or close to running out of stuff to do and then I repeat.

It works really well for me as a way to limit how often I can get distracted by all the tasks etc.

My daily plan is sometimes on paper and sometimes in an app. Currently it is in Note Plan, and have moved between there and paper like 5 times in the last year.

This is where I just go through all my calendar events for the day and add them to a list of “todo’s”. Then I fill out the three must do today tasks, before I fill out five things I should get done today in various sections. During work days it is usually Chores, Personal and Work.

Just a way for me to work more focused on completing stuff.