This ADHD brain-oriented system keeps your mind focused on your highest priority items so you'll continue working on them until you complete them - and not forget them due to being distracted. Will you try it?
My system is basically the same as described, although I’ve evolved it over time. I use a 3 ring binder right now, but have used composition books in the past. When I used a one-notebook system with fixed pages, I numbered all the pages, and started at the front like a bullet journal – index, one or two page calendar for the month, plus key tasks for the month, and then daily running pages that acted like a short list and a brain dump.
After a few years of using the above setup, I found that I need a daily calendar layout that goes through all the hours and lets me plan out my day. It’s a little too fluid in a bullet journal for me – I forget to do it. So I made myself insert pages for a 3 ring binder that lay out a whole work week on 2 facing pages and 1/3 notes .
My long task list is in Microsoft To-Do, because I get it on my phone and home computer, and it’s the only online program allowed by my work’s IT department. The Brain Dump I used to do in-line in my notebook has moved to my morning routine and is in Evernote, because I can also access it on my phone if I need to look at it or add to it later in the day. I found that I prefer an electronic long list because I can search it and tag items to create sub-lists if I need to.
Hope that helps with the visualization of how the pieces fit together. The real key to this whole thing, though, is to set aside some time every week to review whatever you’ve captured, in what ever form you’ve captured it. The long and short lists by themselves don’t help – it’s the daily and weekly act of reviewing those lists and acting on them that is where the relief from chaos comes in.
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