Deep work
Three things a day, a brain dump, someday and maybe, a to-do list and an Eisenhower matrix.
Opens a weekly journal of your own with this as its weekly spread, from next month for three months. Change anything. No account needed to try it.
Hours: By the hour, 6:00 to 24:00
On this week
- Daily Big 3The three tasks that would make today a good day if they got done, numbered so the first comes first.
- Brain DumpAn open box to empty your head into before you plan. Get everything down first, then sort it into lists.
- Someday / MaybeIdeas and projects you are not doing yet but do not want to lose. The Someday/Maybe list comes from David Allen's Getting Things Done.
- To-do checklistRows with a box to tick. Placed across several days, it becomes one list per day.
- Eisenhower MatrixSort the week's tasks by urgency and importance: do what is urgent and vital, schedule what is vital, delegate what is urgent, and drop the rest. Named for a 1954 remark of Eisenhower's, and made popular by Stephen Covey.
- Wins This Week (note box)A box headed Wins This Week, left blank, to write in.
The whole book, laid out.
Design it once. Memari repeats it for every week you choose, each one dated, ready to print at home or as a bound book.