Ultimately, I found a combination of items that works for me- Print off calendars, academic planning pipeline spreadsheet, Google Docs, Google Calendar, WorkFlowy, Paper and Pen, and my “Quarter by Quarter 30min plan”. Well, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but just as there isn’t a magic diet pill or language learning serum or text-to-brain tea, you have to roll up your sleeves, be prepared to fail, and figure out what tool or tools help you, do you, better. You want to know what the solution is… that one thing, that if you do it, life will be simpler and streamlined and efficient and you’ll somehow morph into an academic savant. Obviously, this probably isn’t what you want to hear. This leads me to my number one piece of advice for planning and organizing yourself: FIGURE OUT WHAT WORKS FOR YOU. I’ve had varying success with these different techniques and ultimately found a combination that worked really well for me. I’ve tried Bullet Journals, building an Everything Notebook, Panda Planners, White Boards, Old-fashioned Print off Calendars, academic planning pipelines, the Google Calendar, WorkFlowy, Google Doc, Paper and pen, “a Quarter by Quarter 30min plan” (my own device), and more. Over the past 3.5 years of my PhD work, I tested out different methods of getting organized and planning out what to do, when to do it, how to do it, why I’m doing it, etc. I still have the same feeling of accomplishment. Sometimes, I’ll accomplish things that I didn’t put on my list and then write them on just so I can cross them out. What I love even more than making lists though, is crossings things off. I spend a lot of time getting myself organized.
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