Progress Sheet

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When I see the same activity title recurrently show up on my To Do Today sheet without being done, then I do a variant of the Activity Inventory sheet, which I call the Progress sheet.

I take an A4 sheet with 5x5 mm squares and type the name of the month and my name in the upper-left corner. Then I write, along the short side of the paper, this month’s days from right to left (31, 30, 29, and so on, down to 1), with one number in each box. That gives me about a 5 cm margin on the left side. I write all the known activities in that margin, one activity per line. My Progress sheet then replaces the Activity Inventory sheet forever. ...

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