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I've been operating without a single planner/diary/aide for over a year, due a conjunction of events at work that both made me unaccountable for anything specific, but also busier than I'd ever been with trying to craft something re: the restructure/organisation's operating model - at which point I'd theoretically become accountable. Which meant a lot of shit all happening at once but most of it was stuff produced to attempt to communicate, convince, benchmark, challenge without that stuff actually being 'useable' beyond the single conversation it supported. Therefore, my outlook meeting calendar was all the to-do list needed as it was basically produce A Tailored Thing for the person being spoken to at X time/day.
This year I am still wholly uncertain if I'm going to have deadlines/deliverables etc or what, but I will for the first quarter also still be responsible for an absent peer's job (managing a resource pool for construction works across campus), so whatever, it is going to get messy.
I went on a wandering journey across the internet trying to resurrect/adapt old bujo methodologies, discovering that there's been specific slices of development like the alastair method (interesting! actually looks useful/starts to use time as prioritisation and beyond the one-day horizon); concurrently trying to find if I could splice these methods into the use of a dated Remarkable journal to assist with the hyperlinking/search functions that a paper journal can't do. (and no requirement for calendar/scheduling either, given everything lives in outlook, so all the Remarkable planner bundles are 75% useless to me and what remains re: dated/hyperlinked to-do lists are too cumbersome.)
Then I happened to stumble on this:
https://bulletjournal.com/blogs/bulletjournalist/i-deleted-my-second-brain
"The modern PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) movement traces its roots through para-academic obsessions with systems theory, Luhmann’s Zettelkasten, and the Silicon Valley mythology of productivity as life. Roam Research turned bidirectional links into a cult. Obsidian let the cult go off-grid. The lore deepened. You weren’t taking notes. You were building a lattice of meaning. A library Borges might envy.
But Borges understood the cost of total systems. In “The Library of Babel,” he imagines an infinite library containing every possible book. Among its volumes are both perfect truth and perfect gibberish. The inhabitants of the library, cursed to wander it forever, descend into despair, madness, and nihilism. The map swallows the territory."
So many thoughts spurred out of this that I don't have time to untangle right now sigh, but ugh. Ugh. The image of the five cupboards worth of my mum's personal journals I disposed of unopened, the deep, deep and most unspeakable revulsion at thinking of them/seeing them. The way opening up AO3 (if attempting to enter without having been direct linked to a specific fic or author via someone else's blog, recc, link etc) generates the same sense of rejection/repulsion. The map swallows the territory.
Long story short, I still can't find anything better than a daily to-do list, with primary purpose to simply prioritise out of the tangle of too-much-too-much.
This year I am still wholly uncertain if I'm going to have deadlines/deliverables etc or what, but I will for the first quarter also still be responsible for an absent peer's job (managing a resource pool for construction works across campus), so whatever, it is going to get messy.
I went on a wandering journey across the internet trying to resurrect/adapt old bujo methodologies, discovering that there's been specific slices of development like the alastair method (interesting! actually looks useful/starts to use time as prioritisation and beyond the one-day horizon); concurrently trying to find if I could splice these methods into the use of a dated Remarkable journal to assist with the hyperlinking/search functions that a paper journal can't do. (and no requirement for calendar/scheduling either, given everything lives in outlook, so all the Remarkable planner bundles are 75% useless to me and what remains re: dated/hyperlinked to-do lists are too cumbersome.)
Then I happened to stumble on this:
https://bulletjournal.com/blogs/bulletjournalist/i-deleted-my-second-brain
"The modern PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) movement traces its roots through para-academic obsessions with systems theory, Luhmann’s Zettelkasten, and the Silicon Valley mythology of productivity as life. Roam Research turned bidirectional links into a cult. Obsidian let the cult go off-grid. The lore deepened. You weren’t taking notes. You were building a lattice of meaning. A library Borges might envy.
But Borges understood the cost of total systems. In “The Library of Babel,” he imagines an infinite library containing every possible book. Among its volumes are both perfect truth and perfect gibberish. The inhabitants of the library, cursed to wander it forever, descend into despair, madness, and nihilism. The map swallows the territory."
So many thoughts spurred out of this that I don't have time to untangle right now sigh, but ugh. Ugh. The image of the five cupboards worth of my mum's personal journals I disposed of unopened, the deep, deep and most unspeakable revulsion at thinking of them/seeing them. The way opening up AO3 (if attempting to enter without having been direct linked to a specific fic or author via someone else's blog, recc, link etc) generates the same sense of rejection/repulsion. The map swallows the territory.
Long story short, I still can't find anything better than a daily to-do list, with primary purpose to simply prioritise out of the tangle of too-much-too-much.