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How Bullet Journalling boosted my productivity

I've tried and tested pretty much every task app going. In my architectural business, I can have 30 projects on the go at any one time, each with their own often substantial list of actions. I automatically think that such a level of actionable tasks can only be handled with computing power. However, what I found was that I could easily populate the latest task management app with all of the tasks to do and then completely ignore everything due to complete overwhelm. Entering the task into the program was almost a feeling that the task was dealt with - once entered, I forgot about it knowing it would be picked up in the future. Often, this wasn't the case, and so the system wasn't working. During the very first COVID lockdown, I picked up on @RyderCarroll and his 'Bullet Journal' technique. I had journaled briefly on and off since I was a teenager and have various notebooks kicking around with brief entries of certain days and times of my life, so I was kind of fami...