The Perfect Daily Productivity Plan

Doing daily habits can be a bit challenging when your creative mind likes to take over and come up with new projects all day. I’ve tried lots of planners, checklists, and productivity tools to try to keep me on course. They typically can work for a few days or maybe a week at most but I have never found the perfect daily productivity plan but I have a few tips that have worked over the years.

The two things I have stuck to the most have been the Bullet Journal (Does not need to be name brand) and the Reminders on my iPhone. I don’t even really use all the features in Bullet Journaling. I probably got my technique more from GTD (Getting Things Done). My technique is pretty simple.

Make list of everything in your head
Put a dot beside it if it is something to do
Put a dash beside it if it is just information
Once you complete something put an X on the dot
Sometimes it is good to go through and consolidate your list. Put a line through anything you moved forward to another list.

It’s a great way to destress and just let everything out. Then I use my Reminders and I forgot to mention index cards. Yep, you can get a whole pack of them for cheap. I will use index cards when I’m not using the other things or as a supplement with lists I need to take with me or specific projects I’m working on that day.

These systems serve me well when I need some direction and also when I’m super productive and need to track more projects. I don’t always use my journal and reminders but they are often very interesting snapshots of what I have been doing at certain times in life.