Here's my current process:
- Gather all my supplies: a cup of chai tea and snacks, iPod and headphones, Van der Spek, hole punch and Franklin Covey storage binder (holds all my spare inserts)
- Choose some music - current listening to East Forest
- Remove everything, including from all the pockets
- Put back the basics: dashboard, section page markers, A-Z dividers, Getting Things Done flowchart, spare paper
- Take a new lined or blank insert and write out a brain dump to help me get everything out of my head
- Process this brain dump, any notes in my Inbox (first section) and anything from the pockets
- Update my next actions lists - anything to mark as complete, delete (no longer needed) or to create a new list
- Go through my projects lists - do they all have current actions on, do they need any more thought etc.? Anything new to add to my project ideas list?
- Go through notes and reference material that I keep in my A-Z - anything to update, get rid of or add
- Congratulate myself on a job well done!
Do you have a similar process that you go through to get your planner up to date?
And as always on Fridays, please feel free to discuss anything ringbound planner related.
Have a great weekend.
I have a question, and a bit of a silly one really, but I'd like your thoughts. I take my inserts out to write on them, but don't want to write directly onto the inserts on my dining table where I work,to avoid scratches.I currently write on my page on a newsaper. What do you rest your page on when writing?
ReplyDeleteI love the GTD flowchart. I shall have to adapt this for my own fF and diary system
ReplyDeleteHi folks, found a solution quite by chance this afternoon. A thick clear plastic board called a messy mat, found in Wilkos here in the UK. Just the right thing to protect table tops from glue rollers,pens etc etc and only £2!!
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