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3x5 Card Tickler Files
CathyHughes | Jan 26 2007
So now I have a hybrid system -- I use a notebook as a capture device and I have tagged pages for shopping list reminders. But now I'm finding a friction point on my 3x5 tickler causing me distress when I re-file repeating tasks. I have my tasks on 3x5 cards and place them accordingly by date. Works well except when I need to schedule a task to the next week and I'm having trouble sorting through the day (1-31) cards to find the following, say, Thursday, or the 2nd Thursday of next month. How do you tackle this? I'm thinking I need to add Sunday-Saturday cards, but that seems inefficient. Or maybe use colored removable post-its on each day card to signify the day of the week, seems a little inefficient but not so much as the first idea. I don't really want to do weekday tags because I have appts that I insert into the tickler file also. But maybe this is more efficient than the above? Maybe set up 4 sets of weekday tags for each month and look at a calendar to match the date with the appropriate weekday? Or maybe somehow band each week together? What are you doing? 6 Comments
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 I've tried using calendars, LifeBalance,...Submitted by CathyHughes on January 26, 2007 - 11:53am.
I've tried using calendars, LifeBalance, and tasks lists. None of them have the advantage of the 3x5 system which I like. That is to take out all cards for the day, organize them by time of day and energy level, take into account outside activities and shifting priorities, and be able to multi-task (things like laundry which can happen at the same time as small 10 minute tasks). Given the flexibility of the 3x5 system, I'm going to stick with it until some of the routine tasks become unconscious habits and I don't have so much to track on paper. My only friction point is the above. I can get around it be posting a two month calendar in front of the box, I think, but I'm looking for other feasible ideas as well. » POSTED IN:
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