Something I noticed in your summarization process is that it seems like you have a lot of records about what you’ve done; in particular for example you mentioned that when coming up with a new monthly theme you went over your activities from every day of the previous month. You also mentioned your first month of the year being structured data. Can you give some more detail about what kind of records you keep, and how you use them? And in particular, what do you think the absolute minimum amount of information is that’s necessary to implement something like this?
(I ask because I currently forget most of what I do and it seems like that would make it very difficult to take any of this advice.)
I don’t think people need to start with this level of rigor. I think simply writing down 1 sentence that describes what you did in a day, either at the end of the date or at the end of the week, would be potentially quite valuable.
Something I noticed in your summarization process is that it seems like you have a lot of records about what you’ve done; in particular for example you mentioned that when coming up with a new monthly theme you went over your activities from every day of the previous month. You also mentioned your first month of the year being structured data. Can you give some more detail about what kind of records you keep, and how you use them? And in particular, what do you think the absolute minimum amount of information is that’s necessary to implement something like this?
(I ask because I currently forget most of what I do and it seems like that would make it very difficult to take any of this advice.)
Sure. I keep records in real-time that look like this —
I talked about this a little more here —
http://sebastianmarshall.com/how-i-stay-on-track-with-my-time
I don’t think people need to start with this level of rigor. I think simply writing down 1 sentence that describes what you did in a day, either at the end of the date or at the end of the week, would be potentially quite valuable.