For years I have carried notebook and I have always been looking for better way to keep my work life and personal life more organized and after reading some different systems used by the likes of Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Leonardo da Vinc, I came up with my own that I have been using for the last month with good success thus far. I have a corkboard in my office and in my home and they are divided into 3 sections from top to bottom. Top is “High Priority” items, things that are needed or due in short order. Middle, or “Low Priority”, is things that are a ways off or completed and awaiting review results. Bottom is for small things that have no dead line or “No Priority” and can be done at my leisure. When a new item is posted I put a small circle in the corner and once I begin work on that item I add a dot in the circle and when It is complete I put and x through the circle and the card is filed as complete.
I currently am carrying 3×5 cards in an old appointment book cover but I have a Saddleback passport cover coming that will allow me to move up to 4×5 cards with blank cards on one side and completed cards on the other. I find this system to work better for me as with a note book I tended to forget about something as soon as the page was turned. This system keeps the items right out in front of me to help me remember them and to track where I am with that particular item.