It’s small, easy to understand, free with my unlimited subscription, and although lacking in illustrations gave a straight forward method of how to create a bullet journal. I finally downloaded The Minimalist Bullet Journal Method by April Wills. I am after all a member of the cheaper Amazon Unlimited group. I looked seriously at Ryder Carroll’s new book on The Bullet Journal Method: Track the Past, Order the Present, Design the Future but couldn’t bring myself to pay the price of the book especially after reading some of the reviews. But I could find nothing outlining a bullet journal on Todoist. I Googled using Todoist for bullet journaling and found some strange hybrid ideas of people using a combination of paper and Todoist (some even written by Todoist employees). I downloaded and skimmed a few more books, but I couldn’t bring myself to go back to paper. But something stuck, this weird concept of logs of tasks, symbols and events, the idea of capturing notes in short phrases, almost like shorthand and using that to “track the past, organize the present, and plan for the future” - Ryder Carroll. I downloaded the book, scanned read it and quickly returned it after seeing all the fancy pages of paper and the artistic script and coloring for each day. A book outlining how to start a Bullet Journal appeared in my Kindle Unlimited. The one thing that constantly plagued me about the Getting Things Done methodology was being able to capture everything and I mean everything so that it was out of my brain and into a trusted system.Ī few months ago, as has been common over the past 15 year, an idea I wasn’t familiar with caught my eye.
It was still just a Band-Aid, but Todoist allowed the process to move forward with it’s sync between different devices and being able to bounce between work and home computers. Todoist seemed to give me the best Band-Aid of keeping track of items, with the added bonus of being accessible from work. I tried cards, mind mapping, copy - paste, and finally Todoist. Keeping a context based list of for personal items seems to last only a few days or weeks before the wheels would come off the wagon.
Where things always got messy for me is having the same defined edges in my personal life. Work has pretty solid, defined edges and working with an astute Branch Manager, things move along very smoothly using Projects, next actions and the other important Context items of Mr. This really resonated with me and I have been relatively successful in keeping Getting Things Done as my primary methodology at work. Clear the runway (small daily items) and give yourself the bandwidth to move up to higher altitudes. Next came David Allen, which stood in relief to Mr.
Covey had me planning to take over the world every week. I had trouble remembering to take out the garbage on Thursday and Mr. I soon grew tired of the weekly analysis from the top down approach of Mission to planning the week. First Things First is still one of my favorite books. I was soon familiar with the Franklin Planner, but favored Stephen Coveys philosophy and methods. Nothing along the lines of - here’s how you do it step by step - but it was a start. Granted in the 70’s and 80’s it was more vague concepts than practical. I’m pretty sure I sold the first book without reading it, but soon fell in love with the “self help” concept. Upon writing my father and asking for some cash, he sent me a book entitled “ You can, if you think you can”. Ever since I went to college in the late 70’s and needed money to live and eat. I don’t want to take a lot of time, but let me give a brief history of how I arrived at this point in time. I’m going to assume you already know a little about Bullet Journaling and perhaps a little or a lot about Todoist. This is the only access I have to the internet and I wanted to get a couple idea’s out there that have been of benefit to me regarding bullet journaling and Todoist. Second I apologize if you are lost in the hiking / climbing trip report’s looking for some thoughts on Bullet Journaling using Todoist. First, let me apologize if you are here to read about hiking and climbing, and found this strange blog.