Get Everything Done

I like to observe my productivity with AF. How many tasks do I add each day and how many do I close? The first number is easy to count but not the second.

I created a simple hack as follows. When I cross off a task with the pink highligher
(indicating completion) I draw a tally mark agains today's date. If I dismiss a task, then I use the fluorescent yellow marker. The extra effort involved is so minimal .. maybe 0.5 seconds per task.

Now I can glance at my diary and see very quickly if I am tending to close less tasks than I am adding or more. Over the last few weeks I appear to be falling further behind, so I need some concentrated time to do more work or to dismiss some items.

Thanks, Charles. A great tip - so simple and yet I hadn't thought of it before. It will solve my problem of how to keep a tab of completed/dismissed items, which I've been puzzling with for some time.