{"id":4928,"date":"2020-02-22T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/?p=4928"},"modified":"2021-01-25T07:20:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T13:20:31","slug":"noting-vs-scheduling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/writing\/noting-vs-scheduling\/","title":{"rendered":"Noting vs Scheduling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- \nNotes from a LTR 2020-02-22. mss2ps\nDownloaded from Gmail to Wimsey LTR\n\nCoincidentally, I came across a note I wrote in my BuJo in Dec 2016, when I was assessing how it was working for me and what I wanted to carry forward into 2017. (I always meant to write this up as a blog post, but never sensed an audience for these stray thoughts. But now I have you, so consider this a first draft).\n\n-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. Tools for Reflection<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I like the BuJo because it isn&#8217;t really focused on being a Planner or ToDo List (although a lot of people see use it that way). It really is meant to be a tool for reflection (I used that very word 4 years ago). I think I&#8217;d just come off reading the Autobiography of Ben Franklin and he journals that way&#8230;beginning each day with his goal &#8220;to do something good in the world&#8221; and ending each day assessing his progress or failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\">A lot of people (not me so much) spend time drawing up fancy spreads in their journals. There&#8217;s no real point to doing this if you are just replicating a printed calendar. But for those people who draw in sort of a meditative way, or to help them reflect, relax, and unwind, I think it&#8217;s a wonderful way to process and make sense of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>In the end, the journal is a tool we make suited to our needs&#8230;unlike apps where we have to redesign ourselves to fit into the constraints of the app.<\/p><cite>mss<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Differentiating Between Identifying Tasks and Scheduling Them<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been very good at keeping a To Do list because what I write down and what I end up doing don&#8217;t mesh. Then I feel guilty and quite quickly stop writing down things. (Usually disaster ensues.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\">What I finally realized in about Jan 2017 was that I needed to differentiate between identifying tasks (as well as writing down ideas that hadn&#8217;t really coalesced into a goal or a plan yet) and scheduling them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\">Except for appointments, I don&#8217;t usually schedule more than a couple of days ahead. I just look at my list and ask myself, what do I want to focus on tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\">The format that works best for me is called the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/bulletjournal.com\/blogs\/bulletjournalist\/future-log-the-alastair-method\/\">Alastair Method<\/a>&#8221; popularized by Alistair Johnston. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Setting Priorities<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another way I find using a BuJo valuable is in identifying what I really want to work on and assessing where I&#8217;m actually spending my time. I&#8217;m getting better at asking myself &#8220;Is what I&#8217;m doing right now (such as scrolling through my Twitter feed) actually working on any of the projects that I want to work on?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"cont\">About a month ago I wrote a 1990&#8217;s style &#8220;mission statement&#8221;&#8230;and in doing so, I&#8217;m much more able to assess what I&#8217;m doing against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/themes\/peregrination\/my-daily-practice\/\">my personal yardstick<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Differentiate between identifying tasks and scheduling them. <\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/writing\/noting-vs-scheduling\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[370,351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4928"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4928\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/wordsintobytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}