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Reminders (or 'don't like post-its')
SteveC | Jan 12 2007
Does anyone have any suggestions for replacing the post-it stuck to the monitor for reminding you of something? My specific issue is that my boss has asked me to put summaries on my audit reports to him. I suppose I average about one such report a week, but they're erratic. The form we have to complete doesn't mention summaries (there's a comment box where I'm supposed to put them, but it's called something else). The software we have to use is very clumsy (it doesn't help that our workflow doesn't match the underlying assumptions of the software), so it's not just a case of 'remembering'. I used to have a post it note on the terminal, but it looked messy and kept falling off. Any suggestions? Steve 14 Comments
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 ...and after a period of reflectionSubmitted by SteveC on January 29, 2007 - 12:22pm.
Thanks for all the comments and suggestions, people. I've found the thread interesting from several points of view. Firstly, of course, for all the interesting ideas. Shame most of the software ones are 'not allowed' at work, but there you go. Second. I realise that I didn't explain myself very well. A lot of the suggestions were for regular repeating reminders (which might have worked), but the audits are pretty random (2 on the same day two weeks ago, one last week, nothing planned for this week) so the regular reminders would probably have just become annoying. Third. The mere fact of trying to explain the problem made me think about it in a different way. (hence the realisation that it was the number of different things I had to remember which was the problem, not the summary per se). And fourth and last -- the answer was in the GTD book all the time. David does mention checklists quite a lot (can't give a reference, because the book lives at work). In fact I was dipping into 'Ready for anything' when I saw a mention of a checklist and the proverbial light came on. hmm...writing it down...get it out of you head...I'm sure I've heard that before somewhere. S PS -- Jason, I'm really getting into mind maps as well. » POSTED IN:
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