Tag Archives: Pen and paper

An 18 Minute Plan That Keeps You Focused

Yesterday this interesting article popped up in my Twitter stream: An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day from Harvard Business Publishing. The article mentions time management but time can not be managed. We can manage our priotities and that was the article is about. The 18 minute plan is simple yet powerful when it comes [...]

More about Moleskine

I wrote about Moleskine Notebooks some months ago. While reading a post at FreelanceSwitch I noticed another post that I had missed before. Skellie has written The Monster Collection of Moleskine Tips, Tricks and Hacks. That is a terrific post for Moleskine lovers as well as other fans of pen and paper.

Moleskine Notebooks

Put Things Off has a post about Moleskine Notebooks: The Ultimate Guide (and how to rank your addiction). The post is a great introduction to the various types of Moleskine notebooks. Nick Cernis introduces the Moleskale, a way to rank your addiction to Moleskine notebooks. At present I only achieve a 2, I own one.
At [...]

Keep a daily journal

I often advice other people to write things down, to get it out of the head and seeing things in perspective. Since many years I keep a private diary but I have not used writing in a more organized way for my projects and business.
Maki at Dosh Dosh writes about The Benefits of Keeping a [...]

The power of pen and paper

I am a fan of using pen and paper, it is nice to see others post along the same lines. In The Power of Analog Writing is this part which I agree on:
Putting down plans, notes, ideas, and hunches in a notebook can be a great way to help organize your mind, as well as [...]

Task management my way – pen and paper

Previous posts in this mini-series are Be productive using pen and paper and The back-to-paper movement.
My old concept was using several to-do-lists, kept at home, and small notes. It has worked for me for many years, simple yet good enough. I have used emails to/from work to keep track of things to do or what [...]

The back-to-paper movement

Part one in this mini-series is Be productive using pen and paper.
I continued my reading and went to Why techies are leading the back-to-paper movement. This is an excellent article by Douglas Johnston of DIY Planner. Since I already am using pen and paper I am not really part of the back-to-paper movement but it [...]

Be productive using pen and paper

Even though I have worked with computers for 35+ years I still prefer to manage my own tasks using pen and paper. I have a paper calendar, not any high tech solution and when it comes to my to-do-lists I am writing lists – by hand. At work I use the calendar in Outlook for [...]