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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.

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[-]LarrySwinger
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@JasonCarswell

[-]x0x7
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That's a good goal.

I'm doing offline stuff first each day so that I can be productive before the distraction of the web begins.

Wait, you mean last?

[-]LarrySwinger
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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.

[-]x0x7
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Man am I illiterate. I've been speed reading too much. I read it as online.