• When Bill Westerman's day starts to get away from him he creates a quick diagram like this.
  • Task completed
  • Task deferred
  • Decided not to do it
  • Important
  • Not started yet
  • For "work stuff" Bill starts at the top of the page and works his way down.
  • For "personal stuff" Bill starts the list at the bottom of the page and works his way up.
  • "Here's where the day went to crap"

    -- Bill Westerman
  • I'll do breakouts like this when I need to add info to a to-do - billwesterman
  • Post-It Note tabs. One for today (this one), and one farther back in the notebook for my master list (Home to-do, Technology to-do) - billwesterman
  • Whenever you see this mark, it's because I deferred it - and moved it to a page farther down into the book. - billwesterman

Time-management software -- offline version

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Bill Westerman has joined the back-to-paper movement. Here are a couple of Bill's ingenous methods for managing his time and to-do lists in his notebook.

Bill prefers the Miquelrius notebook (shown here).

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  1. mimiywan 38 months ago | reply

    I see that no one has mentioned the Claire Fontaine notebooks. I love them! They are 90g so much better paper quality than the ones referenced and the page sizes are a bit bigger than moleskine. I just wish there were more pages, the graph paper notebook is only 192 pages (not sure why that count).

  2. cirklagirl 36 months ago | reply

    Wow... I never realized that we could do little image maps on Flickr. This is so cool, Bill. Thanks for sharing this!

  3. captcreate 35 months ago | reply

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Open notebooks, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  4. Ashley Spurlin 17 months ago | reply

    I'm so happy to see someone else using the Miquelrius notebooks. I ADORE them.

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