Reorganising

Once again, I am delving into how I organise work, but this time with simplicity in mind. I'm using paper and pen as much as I possibly can nowadays, but long term projects like movie scripts and TV shows have deadlines to be met and so solid progress needs to be made towards that due date.

I always break big projects down into smaller chunks, and for the longest time I have been using Notion to schedule those chunks and then Akiflow to timeblock those chunks into a given day. The problem with this system is that it is pretty rigid and I fund myself grinding through days. It's productive, but it feels a little mechanical, and the slightest deviation (say I just don't fancy working on a particular thing) requires diving under Notion's hood to reschedule dependencies and amend dues dates etc etc.

So what I have landed on today is the idea of making each project into a card on Trello, which allows me to see everything I am, could be, or might want to work on at a glance. Each of those cards has a checklist within it, outlining the smaller chunks ("Write to page 50", "Write to page 55" etc) and then the cards come into Sunsuma where they can be scheduled onto a day. The lack of automation here means that I can choose to work on a particular thing on a particular day, rather than having a task foisted upon me.

And that's how I do Saturday.