Freelancer’s Motivational Tool: Week Tracking Sheet v1

I have been suffering from the worst case of unmotivation that I’ve ever had in my life. I would really like to just read ALL DAY and not do anything else until Steve comes home. (Okay, maybe I’ll take a few sips of blackberry limeade every now and then.) My friends look at me oddly [...]

GTD Project List Form v2

I [finally!] revised my Project List Form by swapping the positions of the checkbox and code box. This makes it easier to scan the project titles (which I write starting from the left side in English) and easily see which projects have been completed.

Download

Project List Form v2 – project-list-v2.pdf
The PDF is editable in Illustrator, if [...]

GTD Project Detail Form v1

This comes after my GTD Project List Form v1 post. Take a look if you need some background on the concept of Projects within Getting Things Done and want to see the “parent” or “companion” form that goes along with this one.
Concept
I mentioned before that I had also created a Getting Things Done-inspired Project [...]

GTD Project List Form v1

In my previous post about Getting Things Done, I mentioned that I had created forms for keeping track of my projects. As promised, here is my first post about one of my forms — a Project List Form.
Project Concept
A little bit of GTD theory: David Allen defines anything that will take more than one or [...]

Compact Project Task Cards v1

New addition to My Organizer: Compact Project Task Cards. (Download available!)
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been keeping track of my various “projects I’m working on” in the extra margin space of my weekly planner sheets (in the photo above, it’s the space between the day-boxes and the binder rings, under the cards). However, [...]

Cheering groundhog forms added

Doodah suggested that I incorporate the cheering groundhog into the monthly goal tracking forms, and thanks to Illustrator’s Live Trace function (using “Comic” setting), it didn’t take very long (I just had to adjust the paths for the letters and words). You can download the updated PDF or Word document versions on the Monthly Goal [...]

Organizer pages available for download

Just a quick post to say that by request, I’ve put up PDFs that you can download for the weekly and daily pages of my organizing system.
Jump to the update now…

Creating a calendar layout in Illustrator CS2

I decided to take some time this morning to make a monthly calendar spread for my new organizer in Illustrator. Similar to my weekly pages, I wasn’t going to put actual dates on the pages, but wanted to have a base layout that I could then fill in. So, basically, I wanted to make a [...]

My new organizer

My history of organizer systems in bulleted list format:

Early college years: Cheap DayRunner vinyl organizer with calendar refill and address book
Later college years: Leather DayTimer organizer that weighed about 50 lbs. with binder-ring style calendar, addresses, notepaper, etc., slots for ID and credit cards, zipper pocket, notepad, blah blah blah…
Briefly: Hand-me-down Palm Pilot from my [...]