I have tried many, many ways to stay organised and to capture my thoughts. One of my main issues is getting myself to actually look at what I’ve written down. I have a tendency to let things disappear into the background and click off reminders without even realising. I also love s physical notebook but it takes a lot to get into the habit of checking it daily.

One of the things I am trying is making my phone itself a dashboard for organisation using widgets. On my front page here I have a todoist widget and a small view of calendar. On the next homepage I have just one big Google keep note widget which I’m using as a brain dump for when I get random stressy thoughts in my head/ things I need to remember and deal with later. I also have a full monthly view of calendar as another widget on another home screen.

I really like it, especially the calendar but it is not foolproof. I am finding that im already ignoring the todoist list and still going back to Google keep which is one of my favourite apps for thought capturing.

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    1 year ago

    You could try something like Phone Link so you can access all your phone apps on your computer.

    I also use Dark Notes (a free app for Windows). It’s basically just a grid of post-it notes. I have one for “today” which lists the tasks I really should be getting on with right now, plus one with more detailed notes for every project, and one for things that need to be ticked off eventually. That and a glance at the calendar helps keep me on track. Obviously it needs updating regularly enough to be useful but that in itself is a handy task to kickstart the day.

    The thing that really helps is having a laptop with a small screen next to the keyboard (big phone, small tablet sized). Not cheap but I don’t need a separate desktop (because that is just asking for trouble, for me anyway). I use it like a dashboard so that this stuff is always in front of me.