Managing your life on a day-to-day basis is not necessarily as easy as Instagram makes it look. Everyone needs a different organizational system. Our lives are too complex to think that the same thing will work fro everyone and that it will work forever.
If you are a pen and paper type of person, then task management feels best when you’ve got a hard copy. For a lot of people, writing things down help them to remember. This can get complicated if you’ve got a lot of things to keep track of, but you need to be mobile.
If that sounds like you then you should think about using a stripped-down bullet journal. Bullet journals were a beacon of productivity, but somewhere along the line they became complex things. Instead of creating ornate page designs, or trackers for trivial habit, focus specifically on the important things. One simple notebook should suffice.
The best way to organize yourself in a book is to track everything by date. Instead of using multiple books and notepads, just stick to one and use tabs to keep track of important pages. Keep track of daily to-do lists on sticky notes, use a table of contents and number your pages, date every entry and use bulleted lists.
If you usually work in one place, then you can keep multiple journals or adapt a folder-filing system. This is especially helpful if you have large quantities of notes and projects to track. Each project should be kept in a folder and within each folder divide your work into daily tasks, weekly tasks, research, and a progress report.
Sometimes you will need to shuffle notes around, if that is the case, then loose leaf paper is your best bet. Instead of shuffling around with binders, opt for thinner pocket folders. The idea here is flexibility.
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