in which bullet journal makes everything better

[kaberett]

I am very amused at how well having set myself up with a set of columns where once a day I write down the number of unread e-mails in each of five accounts and a bonus one for my number of browser tabs... is actually working for getting those numbers to come down. Very slowly, but it is working.

(I was also amused to discover that I am not the only one of us who independently decided to do this. It is lovely to get to Know This Sort Of Thing About Your Lives Again by dint of having declared for myself Amnesty on reading list and just started over with the new Gregorian year. Though this year, as last, I am laughing at myself a little for having picked the time of year when everyone is most talkative to attempt to coax myself back into this as a habit...)

Comments

[finch]

ohhhh that's an interesting thing to track. I wonder if it'd work for me too? I should try it. Thanks for sharing it!

[cesy]

High five as we both work on this at the same time!

[vass]

Yup, I do that with browser tabs too. And also schedule a recurring task for "close 50 tabs", and another for "delete 50 emails". (I don't have a problem with reading my new emails -- responding promptly is another matter -- but I sure do have a problem with leaving them in a muddled heap after I've read them instead of filing or deleting.)

Good luck with your new year reading list.

[sfred]

Oh, good luck!

[brainwane]

Thanks for sharing the experience! Maybe I'll try this....