My bullet journal used to be a mess of scribbled to-do lists until I saw a spread my friend made in Austin last month that used a simple color code for work, home, and personal tasks.

Now I just use a blue pen for pest control calls, a green one for home stuff, and a red one for my own appointments, which has cut my morning planning from 20 minutes down to about 5, so what's a simple system that actually worked for you guys?

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pat3601mo ago

Saw a thing online about using just one notebook but different colored sticky flags for each type of task. You put a flag on the edge of the page for anything urgent, a different color for stuff you can do later. Lets you keep all your notes in one place but flip right to what you need. My brain can't handle more than three categories or I give up. The key is keeping it stupid simple so you actually stick with it.

oscarwright1mo ago

Color coding is such a game changer. My own planner was chaos until I started using different colored highlighters for different parts of my day. It makes everything so much faster to scan through.