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A consuming philosophical question...
Aug. 13th, 2015 09:48 pmWell, if not consuming, at least philosophical.
Maybe.
During my first full day of BulletJournaling "in the wild" so to speak (as opposed to the confines of a doctor's office), I made a "note" regarding my having spent 1.5 hours editing a document. A little while later, after having tracked down a payment I had sent (a check that had, not surprisingly, been cashed, and which had been tracked down in response to a 'task' I had set for myself), I entered the requisite information (the deposit date, the exact amount) as an "event."
In the great universe of things, I don't really think it matters all that much how stuff gets classified as long as it gets done, but I did get to thinking about a couple of things.
First is how (in BulletJournalese) to deal with a situation where you've taken a credible step in performing a task, but now either have to wait for a response or an action from someone else—or actually set off on a new path, as was the case with the check, after the recipient failed to respond to an email confirming receipt of the check and its deposit.
I think my approach in these cases is going to be to give the 'task' symbol (a dot centered halfway up a line) a set of horns, i.e., turn it into a shallow vee, which will immediately indicate that it's not "raw meat" waiting to be addressed. Then I'll add a line to the appropriate place that mentions what was done and what to expect (e.g., if told Wednesday that the doctor will call Friday with test results, create a 'task' on Friday.along the lines of "expect call re test results).
As concerns the first two items, I was struck by how a record of time spent working on a project could be either an 'event' or a 'note', and the same was true for the check information. Everything pretty much depended on the importance of the time element associated with the information.
In the former case, as I don't fill in a daily time sheet, the record had been properly entered as a 'note'; on the other hand, there was no discernible value to knowing that I had tracked down the check information on a certain date, so it, too, should have been a 'note.'
Small steps, as I find my way.
Best client promises a large editing job over the weekend, so I'll have to make the most of tomorrow.
Cheers...
Maybe.
During my first full day of BulletJournaling "in the wild" so to speak (as opposed to the confines of a doctor's office), I made a "note" regarding my having spent 1.5 hours editing a document. A little while later, after having tracked down a payment I had sent (a check that had, not surprisingly, been cashed, and which had been tracked down in response to a 'task' I had set for myself), I entered the requisite information (the deposit date, the exact amount) as an "event."
In the great universe of things, I don't really think it matters all that much how stuff gets classified as long as it gets done, but I did get to thinking about a couple of things.
First is how (in BulletJournalese) to deal with a situation where you've taken a credible step in performing a task, but now either have to wait for a response or an action from someone else—or actually set off on a new path, as was the case with the check, after the recipient failed to respond to an email confirming receipt of the check and its deposit.
I think my approach in these cases is going to be to give the 'task' symbol (a dot centered halfway up a line) a set of horns, i.e., turn it into a shallow vee, which will immediately indicate that it's not "raw meat" waiting to be addressed. Then I'll add a line to the appropriate place that mentions what was done and what to expect (e.g., if told Wednesday that the doctor will call Friday with test results, create a 'task' on Friday.along the lines of "expect call re test results).
As concerns the first two items, I was struck by how a record of time spent working on a project could be either an 'event' or a 'note', and the same was true for the check information. Everything pretty much depended on the importance of the time element associated with the information.
In the former case, as I don't fill in a daily time sheet, the record had been properly entered as a 'note'; on the other hand, there was no discernible value to knowing that I had tracked down the check information on a certain date, so it, too, should have been a 'note.'
Small steps, as I find my way.
Best client promises a large editing job over the weekend, so I'll have to make the most of tomorrow.
Cheers...
