I have a pile of papers from my last Pathfinder character sheets, earlier DnD character level sheets, and some old bank mail sheets that I’ve jotted down notes and doodled on. It lives on the left edge of my computer desk. And of course, it lives atop other things I intended to take care of, over a month ago. Hahaha.
edit: Just found another piece of paper that had a bunch of things going on. A section where I was working out a framework and wording for a birthday message. A hell of a lot of practice cursive signatures so I can have “a cool stylized yet simple” signature. Doodles of all sorts of things. Most are playing with space (or volume if you may) and layout. Some are works on semitry. Then I spent time looking and crafting two names for a fantasy setting story I’m “working on.”
edit2: grammar
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I’m more of a “17 Untitled Notepads” sort of guy…
LOL. I used to have that problem on my first computer. As time has gone on, I’ve realized that I keep notes in different areas/apps for a bit of content control and ‘organization.’ I have so much stuff on my old and newer G Drives, my go to note app and here and there things I’ve saved on my PC. Some are saved somewhere on the hard drive and others shown on my desktop.
Do you have a system that works for you or do you feel like you’re nearly drowning in notepads?
Todoist recently offered me a free 3 month trial. I’m trying it, but I feel like I’m going to run into the same issue: no matter what organizational strategy I try, I always end up drowning organizing my organization.
I strongly feel like this isn’t talked about as much as it should be. It’s one of the most frustrating things I’ve had to learn to deal with as a person. It surprised me way more often than not as I grew up, how organized people could be with their school work, notes, papers, etc. I would stress a tremendous amount about making decisions on how I wanted to present my info and what note taking format was ‘best for me.’ It blow my mind that others in second grade could just write things down and weren’t plagued with the feeling that it wasn’t in the right place, wasn’t eligible “enough,” or organized well enough.
I would pay good money for software that could work with my brain in this way. Let me brain dump, then figure out how to organize the mess for me.