Task status icons
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The document discusses various task management systems, highlighting the benefits of tracking tasks with status icons to monitor progress and improve performance. It mentions the customizable bullet journal as a versatile organizational tool, and references FranklinCovey's focus on productivity and behavior change. Additionally, it includes insights from Mike Rohde's Sketchnote Workbook and individual practices for tracking tasks and notes in a personal planning context.
Task status icons
- 2. ADVANTAGES OF TRACKING TASKS Tasks that have been acted upon are still visible, permitting you to track the evolution of a task from initially added to a list to eventually deleted, delegated, or canceled. By adding status indicators to tasks, you can track the progress of each task. You can view a completed list of tasks and feel satisfied at a job well done. Additionally, you can use task lists to review categories of tasks in order to monitor and improve performance.
- 3. BULLET JOURNAL From the BulletJournal website: "The Bullet Journal is a customizable and forgiving organization system. It can be your to-do list, sketchbook, notebook, and diary, but most likely, it will be all of the above. It will teach you to do more with less."
- 4. FRANKLINCOVEY FranklinCovey is a productivity company focused on performance improvement. According to the company's website, "We help organizations achieve results that require a change in human behavior." Co-founded by Stephen Covey, much of the content is based on Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People."
- 5. SKETCHNOTE WORKBOOK Mike Rohde, author In the Sketchnote Workbook, Mike Rohde walks readers through specific ways to enhance visual notes and organization.
- 6. UNKNOWN SOURCE I recently came across this set of indicators, but was unable to relocate the source for this post. However, I wanted to include it because it is slightly different than those included thus far. The small circles remind me of the achievement tests I had to take in school and of the satisfaction of filling in each circle completely with my #2 pencil.
- 7. DOUGLASGPRATT.COM TASKS As I have previously written in a post on my DIY planner, I dedicate one section of my weekly planning pages to tasks. My set of indicators is modified from the FranklinCovey indicator list.
- 8. DOUGLASGPRATT.COM NOTES In a separate section of my weekly planning pages, I also have space for notes from meetings, observations, and other interesting tidbits. When taking notes from various meetings, I usually use some sort of bullets to record each agenda item. If an action item is assigned to me - or I assign it to myself - I use the status icons below to ensure that it stands out from the routine agenda items. I also use this set of icons when making notes on handouts or other documents. In these situations, I usually create a task list on the first page of the document.