I'm a user of the Treo organizing system. For years I've been using the palm, then strictly Outlook, then back to the Palm and now I've arrived this week at a new way of keeping track of tasks. Thanks to Brian (I think this is the third or fourth hat tip to him in a week's time...see what happens Brian when you blog more often?) I've decided to give my Moleskin Journal a shot at being my daily task organizer.
Back in February 2006 my wife bought me a journal to write my deepest thoughts, to journal my poetry, to keep my prayers, to log song thoughts etc. Well I sometimes got to the point where I felt like I shouldn't use the journal because it was too nice. I went through and logged songs ideas, wrote some prayers, journalled my daily Bible reading...I even got bold and used it for my sermon outline that I preached back in March during our Reel Faith series. Even though I used it from time to time for these things, I've still not even filled it up half way. This week things are changing. I'm using
it to manage my tasks this week and so far I'm loving it. Having it open more often seems to have infused some creative thoughts about vision, planning and what not. I'm liking it. Whether those thoughts actually make it outside the journal...we'll see.
On the right you can see what my task list looks like in the journal on the left hand page. See all those lines with no check marks compared to
the few with check marks? Those are tasks that need completing. I put a letter next to each task associating it with the department of my life.
- P = Personal
- D = Discipleship (One of the Pastor hats I wear around here with Jim Williams our Youth Pastor)
- W = Worship
- C = Communications
- S = Shepherding (helping people)
So go check out the post Brian had regarding the Moleskin and Personal Productivity.
Buy a Moleskin today on Amazon here.
Check out our Senior Pastor, Tim Howey's blog entry on his journaling here.
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