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Paper people: How do you manage recurring tasks?

Submitted by wood.tang on December 13, 2006 - 8:05pm.

Those of you who use a mostly paper system, how do you manage recurring tasks? I'm thinking more menial stuff like changing your furnace filter, watering plants, et al, that you might need to do once a week, every month, etc.

I've been using kGTD lately and really appreciate the way it distinguishes between tasks that recur after a certain number of days no matter what, and one that resets a certain number of days after you last completed it. How do you manage something like this on paper, besides (the horror!) remembering to repeatedly write them down?

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I'm not a paper person,...

Submitted by Chrome47 on December 14, 2006 - 6:41am.

Craig;7177 wrote:
I'm not a paper person, but isn't this exactly what a tickler file would enable? You could just have a card that says "Take out trash" and set it in Thursday's file. When Thursday comes around (and you do the chore), drop the card in the following Thursday's file.

This is what I do. There are also some recurring things I've incorporated into my weekly review, such as checking my car's tire pressure, the fluids, taking garbage to the dump. Needless to say, it ends up taking pretty much all of every Saturday morning, since it's gotten rather big.