One of my friends was just saying he'd taken up that bullet journal method and was loving it. Seemed too complicated to me. I've tried a few online methods, but generally just go back to old pen and paper lists. Usually separate notebooks for work and life, and when a list gets mostly done or messy looking, start a new page with the undone things and any new things I can come up with...and when a notebook gets too scruffy looking, the fun of buying a new notebook!

Sorry--that wasn't a real question, just a comment on the appropriateness of the choice

I think the Pixies are a dubious choice for ANY product you may want to sell, unless your product IS a bone machine. Sometimes I wonder if there's some music nerd in the advertising department who is all "I can't believe I got away with that." But mostly I think somebody liked the way it sounded and didn't actually listen to or think about the lyrics.

For some reason I cannot comprehend Evernote. Everything I put in there, I can never find again, which is weird because I thought that was the point? I think I might need a tutorial.

Yeah, Evernote looked great to me, and I found it really confusing. I think I'm just a pencil and paper girl at heart.

I can't use any sort of reminder system that doesn't stay in front of my face at all times, because I just forget to look at it. Tasks in Gmail is helpful just because I check Gmail all the time, and the Tasks bar is right there.

I just wish I could access Tasks on my phone, but I can't figure out how.

I ordered a turkey sandwich with honey mustard and banana peppers for lunch, and I got a tuna sandwich with banana peppers. It is the cafeteria delivery, so I don't really want to take the time to complain and get someone back here, but I am disappointed. They put far too much tuna on their sandwiches, and it is not great tuna, and it has too much mayo/miracle whip. They also did not bring chips AND it is in an AU Bon Pain bag, and they are not Au Bon Pain-- I think the regular person was out today.

I'm currently using a vinyl chalkboard in my kitchen for task management. Very satisfying.

I also keep my appointments in a Daytimer, though from years of experience, I've reduced my paper usage in that to two pages per month. I started out with two pages per day and have whittled it down due to underusage...the two pages are plenty.

Lastly, a friend and I have instituted a 10:30am call each weekday where we list three things we intend to do for the day and report on the three things we planned the previous day. It's a bit creaky getting the process rolling (I missed the call this morning due to lack of attention...but rang in less than an hour late.)

It's sort of a verbal kan ban.

So far, so good!

My friend hipped me to a zen habits article about doing the hard stuff first. This is proving to be a major challenge to me, as is evidenced by a) it being noon-thirty and I have only done email and puttering around the internet and b) a major project intended for the first of the year that is now 4 months over due. Sigh.

A Serbian woman who used to work in the costume shop before moving back to Aerbia called that "doing your frog " (the frog being the hard thing). It made me laugh at the time, but it does help.

That's so funny, my friend calls it 'eating the frog.' Huh. Must be a similar derivation.

"Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."

Often attributed to Mark Twain, but more probably derived from 18th century French wit Nicolas Chamfort, who wrote:

M. de Lassay, a very indulgent man, but with a great knowledge of society, said that we should swallow a toad every morning, in order to fortify ourselves against the disgust of the rest of the day, when we have to spend it in society.