The transition might be overwhelming (they often can be), but you'll adjust well. They wouldn't have given you the job if you weren't the best person for it. They're lucky to have you.

True facts! Congratulations, WS!!!

I've seen some "basic" bullet journals and it looks different than most of the stuff I've seen (which is elaborate and looks like too much work).

Steph's links are the same two that I would have linked, plus the video from [link] Some people make it into a whole art project, but it doesn't have to be. (I've added a few things beyond the basics to mine, but I pretty much started out with following the video, and then realized which things worked for me and which didn't, and modified stuff so that it would work better for me. Some of my pages are more artsy, and some are just writing, but the artsy ones are either things where I find that organizing it visually actually helps, or just pages where I doodled some borders and things around stuff that I'd written, when I had some extra time and nothing else to do, because it looked pretty. Days when I have a lot of stuff to do, the pages are pretty plain in terms of artsy stuff, but totally filled with things to do and notes and appointments and stuff.)

Steph's links are the same two that I would have linked

They were in (I think) Barb's FB post about the bullet journals that we both read.

Damn you all, now I want a bullet journal.

Like, I've made a bunch of trackers, where I list the things that I need to do that should be done each day but usually aren't (like a lot of household cleaning stuff -- I'm trying to get back on track with FlyLady, since that's worked for me before), where there's a grid, and there are little squares to color in when I finish each item. When I'm sitting on the couch and thinking, "I don't feel like doing the dishes," I can look at that chart and I know that having that one blank square in the middle of all the colored squares is going to annoy me every time I look at that page, and so I get up and take the five minutes to take care of the dishes, so that I can color it in. I know it's silly, but having stuff visually like that really helps me.

The transition might be overwhelming (they often can be), but you'll adjust well. They wouldn't have given you the job if you weren't the best person for it. They're lucky to have you.

Truth be told, the actual best person for the job did not get chosen. She had been doing it for years at that house under a different job title and keeping things going beautifully under neglect and poor leadership. When the reorganization happened, the powers that be did not offer the new job title to her. In my mind and without knowing that, I had settled on asking for this position whenever she was ready to retire. When I found out that she was not asked, I was angry on her behalf. Due to the reorganization, the powers who were responsible for not asking her are gone. Now that their chosen one is not working out, the powers currently in place decided it was only logical to ask her. So they did. Her response was, "You know, I was really hurt that they did not ask me before, but I am 68 years old, and I'm happy to let go of the responsibility." And then they decided I was the next most logical choice. Under these circumstances, I am very pleased to be the second choice. Especially since the person with decades of knowledge is going to be around for me to pick her brain.

That sounds like the best of worlds, Andi. Congrats on the job.

We have a tracker task type thing we use at work for customer and development projects. It is pretty visual and useful, although annoying as can be with the daily activity emails and such. I could add another project or two for house type stuff. I should do that this weekend. Why not make my todo list more overwhelming by being in one place?

That sounds like it worked out best, WS. Good to know you both got the position and get to have help and advice.

Bookmarking the bullet journal links for later.

Thessaly just left, and I fear I was not very good company because I'm cranky and have a headache from the rain. But ltc was so pleased to see her.

Congrats, Andi!

Damn you all, now I want a bullet journal.

They're awesome! Seriously, I've never felt this organized, and this is practically the only organizational system I've ever tried that actually works with the way my brain works. The major modification that I made to the basic system is that I do weekly pages -- I make a two-page spread with a box for each day, and on Friday night (it made the most sense for my week to start on Saturday), I go through and figure out what work stuff I need to do on what day and plan that out, so that I don't end up doing nothing on Monday and then realizing I have eighty things to do on Tuesday.