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📣 admiral33

What is your pen and paper productivity system?


Checklists, bullet journals etc.


  👤 sethammons Accepted Answer ✓
I have a small, bound notebook and then a tear-away notepad. I jot down initial notes on the tear-away, then move them over to the bound notebook every few days. I do a very, very lite version of bullet journaling whereby I re-go through the bound journal’s latest entires from time to time and re-capture relevant tasks and notes as new entries. This gives me the spaced repetition to remember important things and allows me to drop no-longer relevant things.

👤 afarrell
I use whiteboard notecards[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dry-Erase-Index-Cards-Reusable/dp/B... to write down tasks and ideas throughout the day. then I use neodynium magnets and and a 3-meter wide whiteboard to lay the ideas out on a 2-d grid of impact vs. effort.


👤 afarrell
I use this bullet-journal system for tracking habits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bxIg3M_MHY

Now that I can get a cheaply-bound pad of bullet paper, I use it as my default stationary.


👤 markus_zhang
A special format printed paper for taking requirements from meetings.

It has a date, time, relevant people as well as project name, actionable points and stuffs to confirm, etc.


👤 verdverm
Blank printer paper stack and a cup of pencils and markers for primary note taking and highlights respectively.

👤 askafriend
I just write