Get Everything Done

Currently, I am using a Moleskine notebook. I was using AF4 revised the last 2 months and dividing into New, Unfinished, Recurring. I used different Moleskine notebooks for each, but found that this was unnecessarily complicated. So I have this month been keeping everything in one notebook, and creating a monthly, weekly, daily calendar as I go along when I need it, I have daily, weekly, checklists, and projects and projects notes. The pages grow organically, chronologically. Recurring became checklists. I have some trouble determining whether an item is Unfinished or New. If a new task belongs to a project, which is it? Perhaps it doesn't matter. Sometimes the task goes on a project page. I keep an index in front. I find keeping everything in one book simplifies. I can carry it around. I tried a ring binder with dividers, but gave up after a day - too clumsy.
I have been using computer software for 11 years to manage my time, but this summer am experimenting with paper. Looking at a computer screen with the bright light and small print is getting hard on my eyes and fatiguing. Paper is less stressful. I do have to scan the pages daily, as there is no search or tagging.
I tried AF1 for two months, when it came out, and come back to it off and on. I can go on that the whole day and never run out of things to do. I don't find it good for urgent deadlines or time-consuming projects. I end up not putting enough time into these when the deadline approaches.
I also tried Superfocus for a few months.
I seem to do better when I have a list of things that have to be done today or this week, and a list of projects with deadlines, in addition to the rest.

matthewS

Thanks for responding to my post.
I use a Moleskine ruled notebook, 5 by 8. There are 31 lines to each page. When I need a calendar for a day, I draw one, using each line as a half hour. When I need a calendar for a week, I draw one on two pages. When I need a calendar for a month, or a checklist for the month, I draw one, one day for each line. Each one on the next available blank page.
When I start planning a project, I start a new page for one on the next blank page.
I write new tasks on a separate page. When I need to write down what I must do today, and write the llst on a new page.
This means that projects are not together, and new tasks are not together, and checklists are not together, and calendars on not together, on consecutive pages.
I number the pages. I have a table of contents on the first page. If I want, I put the page number and description on the first page so I can find it.
I date each page. The pages will then be in chronological order of when I started each one.

I thought of using a 3-ring binder, and using dividers to separate each section, but I quickly gave it up after a day of trying it. Flipping pages in a Moleskine is so much faster than a binder, a binder is more cumbersome to carry around. There is still flipping of pages even with a binder with dividers.
Checklists save paper. However, keeping recurring lists and rewriting and crossing off a la AF1 perhaps is more likely to get the task done.
I hope this helps. Maybe not the perfect system, but it does have the advantage of keeping everything in one book, easy to carry around. I generally work backwards, from last page to front.