Paper-based tickler file

Are you still using this? Has it changed much over time? However, now I have moved to Upvise. Why I moved to Upvise and what is that all about are detailed in this blog post here. So glad to hear you find the above post useful. Comments like yours just warms up a bloggers heart. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email.

Skip to content I have found the Tickler file to be an immense stress buster. Share this: Facebook Twitter. Arif Vakil. Salaams Abbas Bhai! Pingback: How I use an Intention Journal to inspire, motivate and even spiritualise myself again and again. Hi, I am trying to get on the GTD band wagon.

Thanks in advance. The months they were to be used in were February and March. As you can see in this example, there was along with this a physical item to keep — the coupon I had to send in.

Hence, I do keep one physical file for tickler items. Paper-based support material for my electronic tickler fits in here great. I thought to write this post because the action calendar item to send this in for March just came up. So I grabbed the coupon out of my pending file and sent it in. You have to be able to deal with the fact that not everything is going to be electronic. Every day you open the folder for that day and receive the 'stuff' in your inbox.

I personally like a paper-based tickler file but Taskwarrior seems particularly well equipped to handler a digital tickler file. Remember that a tickle item is something that has to end up in your inbox at a very specific time. When implementing a tickler system digitally this can be done much easier than using 43 file folders that you check every day. Your computer can check your tickler file for you and just put it in your inbox again.

This way you don't even need to develop a habit, which we all know is hard work. Adding wait: metadata to a task ensures that the task won't be visible until the date that you set this metadata to. For example, when you enter the following command, the task doesn't show up until the following Sunday:.