adam_nguyen7•2d agoProlific Poster

Tried a paper inbox for a week after years of digital

I was getting buried in email notifications so I grabbed a stack of index cards from the hardware store and wrote down every task I needed to do. By Wednesday I had 47 cards spread across my desk and lost two of them behind a monitor. Learned that my brain just works better with digital lists because the search function saves me from my own clutter. Has anyone else gone analog and actually stuck with it?

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holly_green822d ago

Index cards are chaotic little monsters. My aunt organizes her whole life with them and she has a color coded system that somehow works. I lose my phone twice a day so paper would be a total wreck for me.

olivia_murphy2d ago

Man, I gotta say the paper thing never clicked for me either. I tried it with a little notebook once and ended up writing notes to myself on my hand because I couldn't find the book. Digital search is just too useful to give up when you're juggling a bunch of stuff. Index cards especially feel like a disaster waiting to happen, they just scatter everywhere. Some people swear by it but my brain doesn't work that way at all.