All weeks in three folders
- Saturday, December 24, 2005
After a few weeks I noticed I can't find anything there and it had become an inbox and reference replacement of some kind. So I needed to do something. I didn't like the 31-days plus 12 months folder idea because I don't have that much paper stuff for have one shelf for each day. So I came up with these 3 folders with 9 splitted shelfs. See the picture! This system has 3*9=27 shelfs. I use a shelf for a week and then the week half a year later because my tasks should not be planned half a year in advance.
So if there's a shelf for week 52 that will also be used for week 26 in the next year then. The unused 27th shelf I have labeled "Someday" - until now it was always empty.
In the shelfs I put any paper stuff I will need in the next weeks: Invoices that I must pay in two weeks, "Waiting for"s of sent letters etc. I then review the next week's shelf during my weekly review (which is on Wednesdays by the way) and create reminders due in the next week. In opposite to my earlier @action box it is now very easy to track future paper work and find currently required papers.
Labels: Personal development
