so over the last six to nine months i've been using the remarkable two as a way to take notes
plan and organize the weeks ahead but over the last 30 days i've actually been using it as my
go to task manager week planner and i wanted to do a video today to share some of my opinions on
using it as in that capacity and to give you some thoughts on what it's been like to go from digital
to paper for a shorter period of time and give you some thoughts on what i'll be learning and taking
away from this video and hopefully give you some lessons or thoughts about what i could learn from
this experience so this here is the remarkable tablets um i have been using it as i said for a
little bit of time now mainly for planning uh things like strategy and it's been actually a
really nice experience to get offline taking myself away from those digital applications
that i've been using for a fair while now as part of my story i the last sort of three months i've
been using an application called things three for task management uh moving from todoist but about a
month ago or month and a half ago i decided maybe for about a month i would take myself off digital
applications and try something offline that would help me to plan my week ahead now i've been using
digital applications for planning uh probably for about six or seven years in full the last time i
went paper free was when i was in an office and i just tried it for a couple of weeks and it tends
to work for me um however sometimes it's nice to just take yourself away from those digital
applications that can be sort of full and busy sometimes now using the remarkable was actually
quite impressive i've got a full review that i'm planning to come up however what i actually
did is i created two core notebooks inside of the application the application was the application uh
inside of the tablet those were week and tasks now what i do across the month is basically use the
week as a place to organize what i had planned for the week ahead essentially using the template that
they have available on and through the templates area in remarkable basically to organize the week
that i was on and the week ahead and i the good thing with this is because of the space and how
awful i am at handwriting i was forced to write maybe four or five tasks for the day and that gave
me sort of a good amount of sort of uh space to write that um however anything more just sort of
looked a little bit cluttered and i could scroll across and find the week ahead now some of the
benefits immediately were the first few weeks were definitely being off away from a screen
it meant that for example at the end of a day or in the evening i could actually use it to plan
um without having to be on my laptop or my phone and that's quite nice because of the evening if i
was doing it before bed the screen glare obviously very beneficial there but also the fact that it
just took me away from those things i've been using all day to get things done so obviously
how it worked out during the days is i'd have this beside myself while i was working now sometimes
obviously if i've got three or four tasks i can remember what i'm working on or not and you know
need it nearby but a lot of the time it was handy as a companion and to the actual work in front of
me i would scrub all stuff out in the weak area and if there were any tasks that landed during
the day i created a second notebook as i mentioned called tasks where i would just simply list out
things that weren't anything sort of medium to low amounts and just have them there so it's a very
simple sort of system the weak area was really for you know the most important things that needed to
be done during the day and then the task area was just for those low to medium activities and i was
using this for both personal and work now over the 30 days i was actually impressed at how it went um
i would say that taking myself away from digital tools for a little bit of time actually helped to
just give me better reflections on how i should be using them i really liked that and it definitely
i'd say taught me more about minimizing the amount of tasks i'd do in the day but making them a bit
beefier and a bit more sort of project led which helped me towards my goals instead of necessarily
like ticking it off to complete it so definitely help me with that aspect i really liked using
a pen and paper a pen and paper uh a pen on the tablet to be able to organize that and i like the
fact that i wasn't being bombarded by too many stuff there were some drawbacks of course from
using it and that was i actually have a password lock on the remarkable so every time i was having
to think of something or someone came up as a task usually traditionally on you know things three
i'd use a quick ad or i'd use like um something like that like to be able to quickly add a task
and sometimes i i'm out and i have something that comes up so capture was pretty difficult to
do however i actually was trying to force myself to stick with this methodology so i was emailing
myself the uh the actual items into just sending myself an email so there was some drawbacks on
that in terms of capture but at the same time i guess sometimes it actually helped with like
forcing me to try and get that down whilst you know not out and about instead of having to
constantly have an idea and try and pop it down the one thing i do like about the remarkable is
the fact that you can email things over in pdf or png format i really like that because i do that
with my notes and journal before and being able to have that collectively together was pretty nice
now will i be using this after 30 days after these actually be more like 45 days arguably
yes i'm still in that sort of transition period and whether i should do something like this and
sort of ditch a task manager to its full extent i might give it a few more weeks to see how
things are going but it's definitely changed my opinion on how i can organize my work at least so
if i were to go back to an application like things three i think i would definitely limit myself and
make those tasks a lot more fine-tuned versus having to bulk it out you know loads of tasks
and things like that so hopefully um i continue to learn i think it's a really good process sometimes
to take yourself away from digital apps onto paper um at least for a little bit of time give
yourselves a bit of mental head space but then we're going to share sort of my opinions on it
as i said the my full remarkable two video will be coming soon steve and i have booked a space
to film it so we're actually gonna get into the tucked in i've got plenty of thoughts on the app
uh on the app on the tablet i've had a great time with it so far and i think it's just cool to be
able to share how that system is working so guys thank you very much hopefully you enjoyed today's
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whether you went from a um a digital process to a physical process and how it helped or whether
it didn't help be great to hear all aspects of the story anyway guys thank you so much cheerio
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