![]() ![]() It really helped us to get a lot more comfortable with using the service, and budgeting in general. But I wasn’t disciplined with my card usage. I carried debt for a while because I earned enough to pay it off. It’s helped to curtail some of that, and I can engage with my hobbies more proactively. We caught that I was engaging in collecting tendencies outside the internet as well. Then, we figured out what was important to both of us. I had “new YNAB” for almost 2 years before it finally clicked.Īs soon as we got married, we created a joint budget. YNAB has, without a doubt, been one of the biggest changes in my life. Friends who’ve asked about it are speechless when they see our calendar and spreadsheets. It’s certainly not a system for everyone. Then we budgeted the time we had against everything that we wanted and needed to spend time on. We had to take a hard look at what was on our plates, and the kind of life that we wanted. But over the last year, we’ve been time-blocking a lot more. If something wasn’t on my calendar, I wouldn’t do it. 5įor a long time, I relied on my calendar – all appointments went on it. I’ve also taken hours to write and send an email because I didn’t think I spent a long time figuring out where the comma should be placed. I occasionally brush my teeth while heating my coffee because I know that I’ve set that timer for 2 minutes. I rarely register time passing, and I certainly can’t estimate how long has passed while I’m working on something, or how long something should take. It’s not very high tech 4, but it’s been the best fit for us. We’ve currently settled on a bulleted list inside a Google Doc. We’ve (Vaidehi and I) tried using a LOT of apps, especially since we work across Windows, iOS, Android, and the Internet. And if I rush in to just do it 3? I’m simultaneously paralysed by all the options and terrified that I’m forgetting more important things. By the time I’m done brain dumping and sorting things out, I’m too tired to do any of the things on my list. There’s an idea in my head that if I can just get everything into a perfect list, it will all be better, and I will be more productive and prolific. What I struggle with is crossing things off lists. I’ve tried text files, email reminders, scheduled Telegram messages, spreadsheets, bullet journals, web based apps, and premium apps like OmniFocus. I’ve fallen off the GTD wagon more times than I can think of. There are days when I feel like I’m like a dragon that hoards information candy 2. I might get around to creating one, but it will be something I build as I work on things, not before. The thought of it appeals to me, but I have to get over the mental hurdle that everything in my backlog needs to be processed before I can produce anything 1. I’m not building a Zettelkasten or anything like that. Google Docs and Office 365 when we’re collaborating remotely with other people.Notion for working with Vaidehi on UAKC, and.iA Writer for writing posts like this and anything longer,.Drafts and Zotero for longer thoughts, and notes.I’m not doing much processing, but when I do: Saved threads on Twitter, downloaded videos and playlists on YouTube, and a small list of podcasts that I’m subscribed to, and.The Old Reader, and Reeder on iOS for RSS,.On the contrary, I have a focus on what needs to be processed, and what’s junk. Which isn’t to say that I’ve given up on it. I’m trying to figure that one out, but right now, I don’t have much of one. ![]() In my previous post, I mentioned that I didn’t really have a working system for separating the information snacks, productivity porn, and anything useful that was input in my information diet. Since I wrote about hoarding information, that sounds like a good place to start. They really helped me stay functional before I was diagnosed with ADHD. I like systems – we had a lot of them in school and I’ve tried to keep them around as I’ve grown older. It can get annoying for the people around me – not everyone thinks in systems. For the most part, I’ve got by so far is having systems. ![]()
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