Woot! New Daily 3×5
Hooray! I made myself a new daily 3×5 card. I got my hands on a color laser printer and printed out 7 to try it out for a week and see how it goes. Hopefully it will help me be more focused on my life.
I made a few changes to the old design to reflect changes on how I thought about things:
Top 3 Priorities
I dropped the 3 life enhancers and 3 annoyances because I didn’t always have 3 of both to do. Sometimes I would only have tasks for one category, which would end up with a lot of wasted space.
Justification
Since I simplified my priorities to any top 3, I also made a space to provide justification on why these are my top priorities for the day. This forces me to think about what I am doing with my life (trying to raise my consciousness).
I also plan on using the information for a weekly review (when I get around to making a procedure for it). I am going to look for patterns in my justifications to see how I perceive what is important. As you can see in the picture, all 3 justifications for today was “has to be done”, which is a bad sign.
The Future
This is day 2 of testing out the new forms and it’s been working out pretty well. I am also working on a daily review card that would go on the back of the daily plan. You can look forward to seeing that one soon too.
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Any chance in seeing this available as a download?
Sure. I was waiting for someone to ask before I made it available. Check back in a day or two and I’ll have it up in it’s own special section.
I’ve been working on transferring your template to a php script that reads an iCalendar file (like iCal or Google Calendar exports) and creates a pre-printed schedule along with your “key tasks” for the day and a little space for notes. I’m just having trouble modifying your beautiful layout.
I’ll get it eventually. Your old versions of this in your Flickr stream gave me some better ideas for how to do it.
Dean
If it helps, the design elements were inspired by Microsoft’s 2019 video. You can check it out on youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9JBSEBu2q8
What about the details of the printer itself? I’m looking for a color laser that will print on 3×5 index cards.
I have a Dell 2130cn, which is a decent printer, but the manual feed is horrible. You have to be very precise or it will print crooked.