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My weekly spread disaster taught me to keep it simple
I spent 2 hours last Sunday setting up this fancy new weekly spread with color coded sections and little drawings. By Tuesday I had already abandoned it because it was too much work to fill in every box. Yesterday I ripped it out and went back to a basic list with just three columns: tasks, events, and notes. Has anyone else overcomplicated their layout and had to start over? My shop ledger taught me that if a system takes too long to maintain, you just stop using it.
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lunag3028d ago
@ray136 nailed it about it becoming a second job. I spent a whole evening decorating a weekly spread once and then felt too guilty to even write in it because I messed up the pretty drawings.
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ray13628d ago
Wait, you spent two whole hours on a single weekly spread? That's insane to me, honestly. I get so attached to my layouts too, but two hours feels like you were basically making art instead of a planner. I'd be so mad at myself when I realized I had to do that every single week just to keep up with my own system. You're totally right though, if the system itself is more work than the stuff you're trying to track, it's doomed from the start. I've done that same thing a dozen times with different notebooks - all that setup, and then by Wednesday it's just a pretty mess I don't want to touch.
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