[Alberta's Child]

I would caution against spending too much time on this, but I have found the approach recommended here to be extremely helpful. I always keep a notebook at my desk — and in my work travel case when I travel — where I list all of my business tasks for each day and keep notes from my business meetings and engagements. I have a file crate filled with these books going back almost 25 years.

Interestingly, one of the most helpful things I got from these books is that I was able to help a client win a lawsuit just by going back 10+ years and finding the exact date when a seemingly inconsequential but ultimately very important set of tasks had been completed.

[fwdude]

I admit that there is a temptation, in nearly everything, to focus too much on the tool and allow the objective to accomplish suffer. That’s why these day timers always seem like such nonsense. And they’re EXPENSIVE.