A few years ago I went back to using Notebooks more for tracking what I’m doing – read some books on task tracking and bullet journals and the like.
Before this, I had been trying to do it all from some pretty nice colour coded and metrics tracking spreadsheets.
Here’s the big lesson I took from the switch back to Notebooks.
Notebooks change your view every time you look at them – you pause to examine your handwriting, the pen, what you wrote, how fast, what was crossed off, and when.
Spreadsheets show you a great view of where you are at today, but they don’t have the context of what work you put in to get there. I’ll examine data, correlate, try to find patterns, but then I begin to miss the context of what I was actually looking for.
Notebooks change your view, Spreadsheets change your alogrithms.
