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Doin' it on paper
ozhuner | May 23 2006
This one goes out to all of you who are keeping it together on paper, hipster, index cards or whatever. My question relates to living in a digital world while using pen and paper to track your tasks and projects. I'd like to know what your experience is like, given that so much of our information comes to us via email or the web. So much of the information related to (my) tasks comes in email, for example. Do you re-write information on your cards or in your pen and paper system, that originated in email? Do you find this a good thing mentally or a pain? If you do use paper and pen to manage your tasks, then do you also use an electronic system? Do you print out electronic stuff and add to it with pen and then enter hand-written tasks? Basically, I'm interested in knowing how people who work with paper and pen deal with their information that arrives electronically. Thanks in advance for your insights! 12 Comments
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 One system...Submitted by Flexiblefine on May 25, 2006 - 8:53am.
ozhuner wrote: Guessing that some of you are using 2 systems, one electronic and one paper to organize your activities. The pen and paper system being for personal, right? I keep all my stuff in one system on paper -- my Next Action lists are in a Word document that I update and print daily. (That's mostly for formatting, legibility, and ease of updating.) I spend most of my workday sitting in front of the computer at my desk, so things like e-mails are still easily accessible if they're left in Outlook. If my work had me running around more, I would probably keep e-mails in a paper action-support file to have things handy. There are people who keep separate systems for home and work life, and I think that works as long as you have a reliable method for moving things back and forth. » POSTED IN:
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