Juggling projects
by John from John D. Cook on (#JKMQ)
Yesterday on Twitter I said I was thinking about writing the names of each of my clients and leads on balls so I could literally juggle them. I was only half joking.
I didn't write my clients and leads on balls, but I did write them on index cards. And it helped a great deal. It's easier to think about projects when you have physical representations you can easily move around. Moving lines up and down in an org-mode file, or even moving boxes around in 2D in OneNote, doesn't work as well.
Electronic files are great for storing, editing, and querying ideas. But they're not the best medium for generating ideas. See Create offline, analyze online. See also Austin Kleon's idea of having two separate desks, one digital and one analog.