Getting Organized, Again

Two weeks into splitting time between home and the shore this year, I can't remember what nights I spent where. I also know I am forgetting to transport things (ie power sprayer), stock things (ie condiments, alcohol), and do chores (wash throw rugs in back entry). I miss mom's  annual inventory of house contents. (Never did find an inventory app.)

It is time to look at my processes again: 

• Bullet Journal (bujo)
•  phone apps (android)

Gardyn

Recently most of my entries to this nutrition blog have been very specific to my Gardyn experience.

The gardyn is more a sidebar here as one more thing that takes time and planning. I am struggling with it as I am away more.  Will the water/nutrients last until I get home? Should I put it into vacation mode? I've also killed some seedlings because they dried out. Will using a lid help? Bolting happened before, but is it happening more now? Is it because the house is warmer during the AC season than during heating season? Is it because I am harvesting/deadheading less frequently? Yes, I have gotten sloppy about my tracking in my google sheet. sigh. Will the second temp/humidity sensor work away from my wifi?

Aside: This week I had two nice salads from two curly lettuce (buttercrunch?) and one meager one with a mix from several breen plants. Both the old and the new tatsoi are struggling. I have not yet harvested the greens I tend to fry. Green mustard is still clearly the star. I like curly kale better than laciento. Lots of mint and basil. No surprise, my parsley and thai basil were busting up the cubes. They got transplanted outside. Both look a bit stressed. Given I had to prune the roots, maybe I should have been more aggressive at pruning the tops. I have not gotten either to root in water. Parsely will definitely get planted again in the fall. While I enjoyed the thai basil, I did not do it justice. Not sure where it will be in the balance.

I hope you found tracking eating, grocery shopping lists, and planning routes/time to hit stores  sufficient reason to include organization in this blog. If not, until next time.

Below a huge umbel of dill flowers, some barely developed umbels that I might catch if home, and my first amaranth cyme. It not only turned brown, but fell off. I have put a plastic bag around the ends of two branches bearing cymes.

Tracking and Habits: 

My COROS watch is useful for helping track walking, biking, and swimming. There are user errors about starting and stopping it.  Switching from MapMyFitness to Strava changed which of my friends saw my entries and support me. I still can use MapMyFitness to track other activities, although I have gotten out of the habit. I notice when I am injured I track small day to day things that I ignore when I am well.  While it could be improved, it is working better than other things. It is usually there and it is fairly quick and easy.

 I have not been using MyFitnessPal to track calories even daily nor my augmented sleep log in bujo monthly. I have not been looking  at my daily list which includes these and other things that I feel should be part of my daily routine recently. No brilliant solution springs to mind. Just start again. Those habit pundants seem to say start small. Each of these is not that huge. Initially they were started separately. ( I am not carrying "Dr A's Habits of Health"  (HoH) to the shore and have stalled.  I forget which app was sending me reminders, but too many beeps overwhelms the more critical stuff)

Calendars and Planning

An electric calendar is a wonderful thing when you pay attention to it and don't make entry mistakes.  Google Calendar augements my memory and tries to remind me when I lose track of time. I use different ones for events and periodic (monthly or longer) reminders. I have done worse than to take notes about a meeting in my calendar. 

An electric calendar does not compete with the bujo Monthly Log, which quite frankly is still more in my head than on paper. I used to have some seasonal lists in my apps (keep reading for desired features) with details like furnace filter  sizes. Given the multiple houses, a spreadsheet springs to mind for tracking completion.

I still find it useful to look at my week ahead on Sunday nights with a readjust going into the weekend. This used to be a mental exercise. Writing a high level schedule, task list, shopping list makes more sense at a weekly level than the bujo monthly. I miss my palm for reusable lists (ie packing, seasonal) and seemlessly syncing between device and laptop. I miss wunderlist for subtasks and hashtag indexing to enable looking at a list by location, store, purpose....

Ironically the gardyn watering at 8 and 4 brings my attention to the time. Is the garbage out? Is there someone you need to call before 5? Pavlov.

BUJO

Filled up my journal last month. I find migrating time consuming and often redundant. I get that it makes you reexamine priorities and such. I am thinking the list of doctors (that is not in my contact list - are they tagged?) should be in a google sheet that I share with my emergency contact. I think it can also track history. Maybe add reviewing it to bujo monthly  as with enrolling insurance. Unlike a physical which goes on the calendar at the time of the previous one,  but I digress. I suspect each collection needs to be handled differently.

Migrating the calendar and todo's weekly instead of monthly helps break it up. (I am frustrated at the unreliability of the weather forecasts for planning around.) Leave the tracking monthly. But still.

Reread a bit of "The Bullet Journal Method" by Ryder Carroll.

With these thoughts in mind, I focussed on Section IV: The Art, 

which includes Custom Collections, Lists, and Trackers. I realized that I am not recording motivation and I am not sure there is longevity to some lists and daily descriptions either.

Additionally despite the index I often struggle to find notes in my bujo. Online text is easier to search. Lots of text is easier on the computer than the phone. I recognize bujo strongly encourages paper to simplify (however I am more likely to have my phone with me).

Would multiple cross references help people/organization, topic, ...?

Am I done?

Maybe some brilliant fixes will occur to me in my sleep, or as I migrate.

For the moment I am just going to pick up some processes that I dropped.