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Tickler or Calendar
juman | Oct 13 2006
I am slowly building my way up to a blackbelt but one thing I haven't really got going for me is if I should use the ticklerfile or the calendar for some things. Booking a meeting is of course something for the calendar but going through some papers the day before the meeting where should they go? I have to go through them before the meeting but not exactely the day before but it is nice to have a full day to make sure I get the time to go through them. This is one case and whatever it is I am thinking about putting into the tickler I find myself putting more and more as events into a calendar which give me an easier overview. So when doing a weekly plan if I see that my Tuesday is getting to much work in it I can easier see what I have to review that day and see if I can move them. Any ideas and thoughts about this? What do you put in your tickler or what goes into your calender as an event to do on a specific day? 18 Comments
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 TicklerSubmitted by mmr on October 16, 2006 - 4:36pm.
I'm one of the on-again off-again tickler users. When I was working in a regular office, it had become a valuable item in my morning ritual (caffeine, calendar, tickler, RDR (rapid daily review -- so named to encourage me to not use planning as a procrastination tool -- one of my pitfalls). Now that my "office" can be at the office, at home, at ____, the tickler fell right off the map. Because in the past I had found the tickler to be a real help though, I was trying to get it back on board, and recently came up with a new plan. Every Friday last thing, or Monday first thing, go to my full tickler file (located at the office), and go through the week, adding the items in there to a portable plastic accordion file with 6 divisions (Monday-Friday, and Saturday/Sunday). So far it's working quite well -- I have the week's items with me, and I don't have to wonder whether I'm missing something! » POSTED IN:
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