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Paper notes. Either a spiral bound notebooks or spoiled prints that come out of making things like

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Nothing electronic because of problems with object constancy: I am already looking at a screen and don't want to lose what I am looking at, have to navigate through lots of tabs and icons to find my note taking application, then navigate through lots of tabs and icons to get back where I was.

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This is what I like to do, but I lose things in my notes sometimes.

Colored pencils might help? Plus a practice of manually copying last days open To Do’s to start fresh. I’ve done that for a while and if you finish most but not all of your daily tasks it can help get you into a groove. Getting things done made me proud, with a booklet of activities to look back on. Can’t mix notes in the same book though.

"manually copying last days open To Do’s to start fresh" That's a great idea. I could see that helping a lot with consistency.

Have an indicator for done pages (tick marks in the corner works for me), and then for not-done pages that you need to get back, add those tiny stickies and let it stick out of the page.

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