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I'm tired of being so unorganized. What I did was categorize my goals / activities into a couple of categories (grouping some of them together for the sake of simplicity, for example I have 'sysadmin stuff' which includes anything Linux or server related), decide roughly how many hours a week I want to spend on them, and turn those into repeating appointments with reminders in my phone's calendar. I have one calendar for each category and they all have their own colour. I'm doing offline stuff first each day so that I can be productive before the distraction of the web begins.
I still have a separate todo list. In fact, every category has its own todo list in the back of my notebook, so when the time comes to do a certain activity, all I have to do is turn to the appropriate page and pick todos from there. I use a Hobonichi which has five checkboxes every day, so at the beginning of each day I pick five todos (from the various categories). I will stop trying to get as many todos as possible in one day and then getting overwhelmed, or overthinking which ones should be done today compared to tomorrow. Instead I will try to be consistent in doing five important todos each day. After some time I will be nearly done with my immediately todo list so that I can reach the 'mind like water' state that's described in Getting Things Done.
In fact, I'm still finishing up my weekly schedule. I will keep you guys updated about how this goes.
Good stuff!
GTD is a great guide, but ultimately I've come to realize that above all of the organizing tips, the most important thing is to keep at it, maintain momentum, and always be familiar with, evolving, and working down your lists.
That's a good goal.
Wait, you mean last?
As soon as I go online there's the risk that I start wandering off by reading articles, playing games, or chatting, and then it's difficult to be productive for the rest of the day. So if I do offline stuff that needs to get done first, I'll get myself in that flow and I'll want to hold on to it. I can better focus that way. Just a few hours in the morning btw.
Man am I illiterate. I've been speed reading too much. I read it as online.
What's your overall experience with speed reading? Personally I find it difficult to keep up a pace while speed reading manually. There's TTS software that can read the text out loud at 300 wpm while you read along form the screen, I have the most success with that method but good TTS is very difficult to configure on GNU/Linux, one of the many reasons I hate it for desktop use. There's software that presents 3 words at a time at 300 wpm but that goes way too fast for me, at that rate I'd rather just read normally.
@JasonCarswell