I used to like to journal. Hand written to start and eventually on my laptop at night before I went to bed. When it was handwritten, I'd usually be at a coffee shop and leave a margain and as things I needed to do came up I'd write them in the margain. And at the end of the sesh I could make a list of items I needed to do and organize them by priority if I needed to to them Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month, This Year, In 5 Years etc... Which turned out to be awesome because I'd know what needed to get done and be able to do those things when I felt like doing them and then it hardly even seemed like work and get them done before the deadline. Unlike Douglas Adams, who, in his memoir "The Salmon of Doubt" said he loved the sound... of deadlines whooshing by!
I used to like to journal. Hand written to start and eventually on my laptop at night before I went to bed. When it was handwritten, I'd usually be at a coffee shop and leave a margain and as things I needed to do came up I'd write them in the margain. And at the end of the sesh I could make a list of items I needed to do and organize them by priority if I needed to to them Today, Tomorrow, This Week, This Month, This Year, In 5 Years etc... Which turned out to be awesome because I'd know what needed to get done and be able to do those things when I felt like doing them and then it hardly even seemed like work and get them done before the deadline. Unlike Douglas Adams, who, in his memoir "The Salmon of Doubt" said he loved the sound... of deadlines whooshing by!
That’s a cool way to organize your todo list! Also, I’m with you. I always deliver to deadline, for every publisher I’ve ever worked with.