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Time Management: Capture, Configure, Control [Cal Newport]

The Swyx Mixtape

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I'm a Writer and I've Got a Planner.

At the end of every day, i do a shut down. My planner even has a box i checked. That indicates i've done my shutdown. As part of that shut down process, i look through everything in that planner and get it into one of those more stable systems. I typically have a column for things i'm working on this week. And then for my daily plan, i'm like blocking off everything on my calendar. Here's what i want to do during that time. Let me look at my weekly plan to remind myself of what  this big picture is for this day. She says she uses trello as an extension of her 'working memory'

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