Stabilizing Your Systems

Monday, February 21, 2022 at 11:30
Mark Forster

One of the problems many people who visit this website have (including myself) is finding a stable time management system to stick with. 

Here’s a method which may help you in finding one, while still allowing you to experiment with others.

What you will need is an app in which you can drag bullets from place to place within a list. I’m using Roam Research but there are hundreds of others. You probably have one already.

 

1. Make a short list of time management systems which you feel you might want to use (you can add more at any time to the end of the list)
2. Drag the system you are currently using to the top of the list
3. Use it for as long as you want to
4. Select the next system you want to use and drag it to the top of the list.
5. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4 ad infinitum

 

The result will be that the systems you most often use will be at the top of the list while the others sink towards the bottom. This should gradually (or not so gradually) have the effect of introducing more stability into your choice of system.

Article originally appeared on Get Everything Done (http://markforster.squarespace.com/).