Three by five – 52 Tiger

Cuando me llegan “cosas”, cojo una ficha, escribo la sinopsis más breve, la tiro dentro de una bandeja de plástico y continúo con lo que estaba haciendo. Todo va en una ficha, (…) Al final del día, tomo una ficha de la bandeja a la vez, decido cual es el mensaje, tomo las acciones correspondientes y luego la descarto. La interrupción es menor y el procesamiento es simple (una ficha y, subsecuentemente, un pensamiento a la vez), ordenado y efectivo.

Excelente idea. Creo que se podrían reemplazar las fichas por líneas en un archivo de texto plano sin mayor perjuicio…

(Site is down, but that’s why we have The Wayback Machine.)

I like the gist of this because it kinda is what I was doing for the two seasonal newsletters I ran: toss any interesting things I came across into a (digital) bin, and then when the time came to actually write a new issue of the newsletter, I started sorting and picking. And it worked (b’-’)b

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When “stuff” comes in, I grab a card, write down the briefest synopsis, toss it into a plastic inbox and resume what I was doing. Everything goes onto an index card, (…). At the end of the day, I take one card at a time out of the box, decide what its message is, act accordingly and then throw it away. The interruption is minor and the processing is simple (one card and, subsequently, one thought at a time), orderly and effective.