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You can make life much easier for yourself with a few personally curated documents, like keeping a canonical address book.| Analog Office
This system is a mini tickler file system. But rather than tracking things through a year, this one is based on a weekly rhythm.| Analog Office
Really enjoyed this article by Joan Westenberg, about how she recovered her ability to think for herself.| Analog Office
Really enjoyed this article by Joan Westenberg, about how she recovered her ability to think for herself.| Analog Office
Here at Analog Office World Headquarters, we are spending lunch hour reading our new book, The Power of Cash by Jay L. Zagorsky 📚| Analog Office
This system is a mini tickler file system. But rather than tracking things through a year, this one is based on a weekly rhythm.| Analog Office
Hi Anna, I recently discovered your site, via the Plain Text Project, and I am so glad I did! I feel like I have a split personality, going back and forth between digital (scan everything! Minimalism is the goal!) and analog (if the cloud disappears, I’ll still be fine; more joy in paper; let’s go to the office supply store!). And I come from a family of letter writers, where choosing the right stamp is part of the fun, and where we geek out on pens, pencils, notebooks. So I lean towards ...| Analog Office
I grew up in a rural area with frequent power outages. Because electricity wasn’t a given, especially in the winter, we always had kerosene lamps and flashlights on hand, and a woodstove with a range top and oven that we could cook with.| Analog Office
“Hello! I don’t remember how I found Analog Office but I love it. It’s so comforting to read about processes and techniques that speak so loudly to me. My question is this:| Analog Office
The virtual world is a disembodied one, and promotes the lie that we do not need our bodies to think. I believe it is no coincidence that researchers keep discovering that use of the body preserves the mind; your risk of developing dementia is lowered with exercise, lowered with keeping and caring for a pet if you live alone, lowered with the richness of in-person social connection which relies on all kinds of bodily cues.| Analog Office
Ahhhhhhh…. the most wonderful time of the year at the Analog Office.| Analog Office
“Hey, Anna,| Analog Office
I actually should be paying bills right now, but instead I’m preferring the procrastiductivity of writing about organizing your bills.| Analog Office
“Over the course of this year I have somehow accumulated five notebooks I’m writing in daily. How did this happen? And how do I pare down?”| Analog Office
“How about a post on functioning when (stuff) hits the fan, an unexpected crisis that fills your mind and makes it hard to shift gears? Do you drop balls and give yourself grace, or delegate, or still try to function or something else??”| Analog Office
Excellent post on bullet journals from @nofars at which is part of a series on planners. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole series. Writing at Large is a cool site to peruse, analog friends! Includes some great sketches as well.| Analog Office
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Here at Analog Office World Headquarters, we excitedly passed around CJ Chilvers’ essay on the all-around greatness that is the bankers box. Go read it, it is excellent.| Analog Office
Just came back from a trip to see my parents, who live about 300 miles away from me. My father has been diagnosed with a serious illness, and my mother asked me to help her get organized to deal with her new household and caregiving responsibilities.| Analog Office
Record your processes into lists.| Analog Office
A reader asked me why I use the Johnny.Decimal filing system for my digital folders. He said he had tried it, but it seemed like “overkill” for him, and he wondered why I use it.| Analog Office
I hesitate to even post this.| Analog Office
Most excellent: a reader question today!| Analog Office
For a few years I used Ryder Carroll’s bullet journal system, and the bullets — the symbols — were especially helpful.| Analog Office
Filing systems for personal, household files don’t get much love from people who write about household organizing. Most books dealing with household organization brush it off in a page or two, and it often comes down to something like this:| Analog Office