I make daily/weekly/monthly goals, and structure it in whatever App I use e.g. Linear, Todoist, or Notion.
- Monthly goals are very high level and few (e.g. “Make PoC for this”, “Redesign and relaunch blog”)
- Weekly goals are more tangible and limited (e.g. “Settle on approach for calling Rust from Swift code”, or “Finish design and styling of posts”)
- Daily are very concrete (e.g. “Set up UniFFI pipeline to generate Swift bindings” or “Implement new theme across blog pages”)
Sometimes things come up that I discover during implementation, and then I typically shift a daily goal to the next day.
Has worked well so far for giving me focus, and I then pick the daily goals based on the weekly focus from the list of many open tasks/issues I have in my various projects.
I set up each thing I’m working on as a Project in e.g. Linear, and immediately add a priority when I add things, which allows me to easily keep an overview of many smaller or larger projects I might have going on or want to do in the future.
While I do like paper, for me that’s only for ephemeral things. I prefer to keep things digital, allowing me to easily add stuff from my phone in the go when I get an idea while being out-and-about. I also write much faster on a keyboard and use the various tasks as the dumping ground for info while I’m working through something or researching something.
- Monthly goals are very high level and few (e.g. “Make PoC for this”, “Redesign and relaunch blog”)
- Weekly goals are more tangible and limited (e.g. “Settle on approach for calling Rust from Swift code”, or “Finish design and styling of posts”)
- Daily are very concrete (e.g. “Set up UniFFI pipeline to generate Swift bindings” or “Implement new theme across blog pages”)
Sometimes things come up that I discover during implementation, and then I typically shift a daily goal to the next day.
Has worked well so far for giving me focus, and I then pick the daily goals based on the weekly focus from the list of many open tasks/issues I have in my various projects.
I set up each thing I’m working on as a Project in e.g. Linear, and immediately add a priority when I add things, which allows me to easily keep an overview of many smaller or larger projects I might have going on or want to do in the future.
While I do like paper, for me that’s only for ephemeral things. I prefer to keep things digital, allowing me to easily add stuff from my phone in the go when I get an idea while being out-and-about. I also write much faster on a keyboard and use the various tasks as the dumping ground for info while I’m working through something or researching something.