I really enjoy making up new ways of keeping track of my work (and thereby delaying said work) and I thought I would just show a few of those here.
These are the notes from when I was running a model UN conference (probably the most messy these will get). The bottom right here has a quick draft of a thank-you speech for everyone who took part.
This is a list of speakers w/ speaking time so I could keep track of everything. Interesting to see how I keep track of things very quickly.
This is a particularly interesting page - the left has a modified schedule with what I need to do that day on the top, and what is DUE then on the bottom.
This is a cool one I recently thought of - It’s a “fun” chart that will let me figure out what work will be hardest to finish. The stuff that is “fun later” (or not really that fun) and long is much harder to do, while the short fun things I should save for when I lose motivation.
These are some fun geometric doodles I did with the dots on the graph paper. Usually picking a ‘semi-system’ (straight, then diagonal, ect) makes something cool, but I usually just try and keep some form of symmetry. I might be posting a BIIIG collection of doodles soon, so keep an eye out for that.
A graph of notebooks and binders I have vs. need. Useful to keep track of materials.
TIME/IMPORTANCE BUBBLES!!!
This is an earlier version of the 2d chart from before- the size of the bubbles corresponds to the importance/time needed to finish the projects. Pretty proud of these, for some reason.
A checkbox system for daily habits over the summer - it was pretty satisfying to make sure I got everything done, and I used a nice pen (and wrote it pretty neatly). However, I don’t think I ever followed through with it as only half of the boxes are checked.
Another daily calendar system (this time turned sideways). This is similar to how my real calendar works - a lot of boxing unfinished things, a lot of checking finished ones. The numbers help me figure out what to do first, and the sideways-L shaped thing on the right in the last entry is something I usually use to indent a line.
As stated in the title, this was my productivity exercise for lazy people. It was basically a list of things to finish, but I put how much I had already done (the percentage), the expected time to finish, and what day it was due on the right which makes this especially remarkable.
These are the mixing notes from my song “Bergamont”. I think I have come a long way in my production since then, but taking notes on the changes I wanted to make was particularly helpful. I think this was probably the most thorough I have taken the mixing stage in my music.
And finally, a hidden gem of something I don’t think I returned to much: a system of symbols to keep track of the various types of notes I was taking. I might reuse the symbols, but I think I did a good job of thinking up something cool. See if you can spot some in earlier notes!
So there was an overview of all of the random note-taking systems I have come up with over the past few years. I try and make a new one every once in a while, and I’m looking forward to what I do in the future!