Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Bullet Journaling alongside your daily tasks

Your day-to-day routine with your tasks can have a large bearing on your productivity, so being mindful is important.

In this week’s tip, macness suggests “bringing in reinforcements” by using the Bullet Journal method alongside one’s Remember The Milk tasks.

I’ve been using RTM for a long time: far longer than I care to admit. I have even left RTM at times when I was trying to switch things up. I used a gamified task manager for a while and that was fun casting spells on tasks, and leveling up, and even dying. But that got old the minute I tried to keep productive.

I found the Bullet Journal method by accident last year and started to find that it was super effective for me. Primarily because I actually responded to having to write tasks over and over and over again if I didn’t complete a task! It kept things in a laser focus.

However, I later came to find that I still really do love using a digital solution for tasks too. So I came back to RTM hard, but this time, with a plan… on pen and paper.

Bullet Journaling is much more than just a task manager and RTM can be used much more than just a task management system. So I’ll be sharing my adventures of how I use these two systems to battle the forces of task management like Batman and Robin (you decided which one is which).

For now, I’ll say that my Weekly BuJo spread (2 Journal pages) has two main areas: a daily log (for events/appointments/tasks) and an open tasks section. For the daily section, I take my RTM tasks (due:tomorrow) and place them the evening before in my BuJo. For the open tasks section, these would be used as something I want to do this week but I’m not sure when exactly. I migrate any tasks that I didn’t complete (rewriting them for maximum guilt effectiveness) and yes, I have to check off two boxes, one on RTM and another in my BuJo. But look at this way - checking that complete box feels twice as good. :)

Thanks for sharing this tip, macness! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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