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| As of 2025, I now do all task tracking using sticky notes on my refrigerator and computer monitor. | As of 2025, I now do all task tracking using sticky notes on my refrigerator and computer monitor. | ||
| - | | + | The fridge system is: |
| - | - Left door - long term goals, thoughts. For example, places I want to travel this year, big ideas I want to pursue. | + | - Left door - long term goals, thoughts. For example, places I want to travel this year, big ideas I want to pursue. |
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| - | Right door - Short term tasks | + | |
| These are organized in rows. For the right door, on the top row are smaller items that can be quickly knocked out or time sensitive items that need to happen soon. Items on lower rows are in roughly priority order. On the left door there' | These are organized in rows. For the right door, on the top row are smaller items that can be quickly knocked out or time sensitive items that need to happen soon. Items on lower rows are in roughly priority order. On the left door there' | ||
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| Things that ABSOLUTELY must happen tomorrow go on a sticky note on my computer monitor. | Things that ABSOLUTELY must happen tomorrow go on a sticky note on my computer monitor. | ||
| + | The problem with every other system, and especially all computerized systems, is that I have to remember to LOOK at the system. When I know I have a lot of items in there, anxiety prevents me from opening the app at all. Sticky notes on the fridge force me to look, which empirically results in execution. | ||
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| + | Interesting corollary is that this only became viable when I moved this year into a place where the fridge is located in the main living area (big studio-style space). In my old place the fridge was in the kitchen, which I only ever went into for food and bev. So probably the main key is that the stickies are located somewhere you can't miss them. | ||
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