PTPL 209 · How to Design a Screen-Free 1-P Weekly Planner

And reclaim focus for your distractible brain After years perfecting a simple plain text productivity system for tracking my tasks and time, I should have been happy. Surely the search was over at last? But something still felt wrong; incomplete. The information was all there, but I still had trouble focusing on the next important thing. The system worked beautifully on any device, but my highly distractible brain needed a screen-free way to see the week ahead. And that is where paper came to the rescue. The premise is simple: identify what needs doing in the next seven days, and write it down. By hand. If you are vision or motor impaired, paper won’t cut it here. Replace ‘paper’ in what follows with ‘simple list’. Pick an app (one you don’t use for anything else) to write out your most important tasks. Click here to read more about how to access the focus benefits of working on paper, when analog isn’t an option. Now we’ve got the what, it’s time to pick the where. Dated planner?…