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Productivity in the workplace : Post-It Notes on the monitor

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The bottom row for long-term projects is brilliant. Not so much for tracking things to do for them, but just to be a visual reminder of which side projects are actually important.

I've got easily a dozen medium-sized ideas that I'm rather indecisive about which should get my time on any given night. Actually coming up with a list of them, even without priorities, would be a huge boon. As I re-remember ideas I can easily assess if I should just scrap the idea (already have enough "good" projects) or if it's good enough to bump something else. Keep 3 or 4 ideas tops stickied and stay focused on them.

I dare say I'll try that as soon as I remember where my post-its are.

How does this method out perform a plaintext task list including projects? It seems that having so many notes staring me in the face all the time would make it exceedingly difficult to focus on the actual task in front of me. A notebook or text file doesn't have that problem.

I don't find that the Post-It Notes distract me at all, and I don't have to keep a notebook around to clutter my desk. For me, with notebooks sometimes it's out of sight, out of mind. Once you start using the system you hardly notice these things at all until you need them.

I do keep an additional notebook under my desk for calculation, or just trying to visualize an algorithm. Notebooks should generally be reserved for bigger and longer thinking, where you can also append the Post-It Notes to particular pages if you so require.

I love Post-Its. I would recommend using different colors to denote the various priority levels of your to-do items.

But priority is already determined by location, highest priority to lowest, top to bottom, and left to right. I'm still unsure of what to use colors for.

You can use colors to denote a category, if you can easily categorize your tasks into a few groups.

You can change order. You can't change color. Reprioritizing happens.

Color's could be used to show which project it's associated with. I've been doing this with my Moleskine lately. I have a differnt color of tab depending on what project that page or section of pages has to do with.

Awesome suggestions.

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