Planning to Plan

I spent a lot of time yesterday looking at blogs about planning. Most of them involved making pretty plans in pretty planners. All were lovely to look at; none of them really worked for me.

But then I found this article on the Unclutterer (a fun and useful site about dealing with both physical and mental clutter). The idea that appealed to me was having two simple notebooks, one holding the to-do lists for my upstairs "office" where I do most of my writing, and one for my downstairs "nest" which seems to be homebase for much of my domestic planning.

Those notebooks can themselves be subdivided. The obvious way to do this in my office is a page or section for each of the organizations for which I do volunteer work plus one for personal stuff. I can do that now, although I suspect the exact divisions will evolve as I go along.

I am less clear about how to subdivide the domestic notebook. By how often tasks need to get done? By room? By general type (Errands, Cleaning, Decluttering, etc.)?

The Unclutterer article also led me to this which provides a very simple method of marking the status of items on the to-do lists. I think that should work pretty well, once I get the hang of it.

Still needed is someway of deciding priorities and setting deadlines. I have some ideas on that, but I need to think about it a bit more.

I'd love to hear your ideas! Please leave a comment!