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Creative Post-It Usage
GOD | Feb 6 2006
I have a dry-erase board in my room with the same notes I left for myself several months ago. I found that post-its work much better for what I was trying to do with it -- provide reminders for myself. The only thing to refine was a slight bit of resistance in finding a post-it, writing the reminder, and affixing it to the door, but I found a hack. I had been thinking of getting one of those pop-up post-it dispensers (especially after seeing the Machinist), but I just couldn't justify the (albeit relatively low) cost, since it's really not that hard to put up a post-it as it is. My hack, then, is to put a bunch of blank post-its in some pattern (I made them say 'Hi' this time) on whatever surface you normally use so they're already there when you want to use them. 18 Comments
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 I love whiteboards. I have two...Submitted by nuttdan on March 21, 2006 - 2:47am.
I love whiteboards. I have two in my room. I write down all the night's tasks on the whiteboard, then I make a special area with a progress bar in it with some number of hours of work I want to get done (between school, professional, and anything else worth doing). Then I commit to work until a certain time, usually an hour or half hour, and I write the time I would stop on the board. And when I'm done, I take a quick break, and I fill in the progress bar. I tried using post its for when I'm studying and I come up with some seemingly brilliant idea. I had a wall full of post its with dumb ideas on them. Then I got a sketchbook, and I just make a quick sketch or outline in there, and I can flip back through and think of additional things to add or refine. » POSTED IN:
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