Productivity Rabbit Hole
On Mastodon yesterday, I mused about the possibility of having some sort of comment box on Bearblog to allow people to comment on posts directly, instead of directing them to e-mail or Mastodon and whatnot. Totally just wishful thinking, not really starving for that feature because that's one of the great things about bearblog - the simple nature of it.
Hours later, I found this post about adding a private feedback box to your page; I think that's really cool! However I don't think I'm going to try implementing it, mostly because it involves using another site as an intermediary. It's not that I don't trust this user - it's just that I don't feel like setting up yet another thing just for kicks. Plus, it's set up in a single browser...so I can't access comments on my phone, for instance.
Anyway, I browsed maybecoding's posts and found reference to somebody named Carl Pullein. Never heard of him before, even though I have looked into many different productivity systems. So I looked him up, and found his YouTube channel - specifically, this video about organizing your task manager.
I like this guy. He is all about the system rather than the tool. All of his advice can be translated to any task management tool (from his videos, it looks like he uses Apple Notes). I use a bullet journal and it works very well within his system.
I'll let you take a look through his YT channel but the basics of it is: dump your notes/tasks/whatever in a global inbox. Do a weekly review of your inbox, and move things to where they need to go: tasks go into different buckets (this week, next week, next month, etc.), meetings/events would go into your calendar, a note would go in...your notes. And so forth. The goal being after your review, your inbox is empty. If you're using a digital task management tool, and you properly assign dates to your tasks, everything you need to do on a specific day shows up in your "today" page without having to search through your tasks.
I think that's great. An analog method (like my bullet journal) needs a bit more manual work to implement this kind of system but at the basic level it works the same way. So that's the rabbit hole I'm under...revamping my bullet journal a little bit to get stuff done. This is perfect for my epilepsy essay project which has a lot of work to be done.