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I’ve had the same analogue paper-based organizer since 2006<\/a>. If it was a human, it would be an adult now.<\/p>\n It’s literally the same sheets of cardboard as I started out with, getting slightly worn around the edges now. Each one has a small sticky note with a title at the bottom left, and even several of those survived until very recently. The oldest two categories are the original ones from the Getting Things Done<\/a> method: “Actions” for general to do items, and “Projects” for larger items, which yield a stream of smaller steps that go into “actions”. Over time I’ve added “Info\/think” for tasks where I need to either make a decision or find information to make a decision, and “Buy” for things to buy.<\/p>\n More recently I allocated one column of a sheet solely to things to “Clean out”.<\/p>\n Stuff tends to accumulate. The house is large enough that we could just let it do so. Sorting out unnecessary stuff was never a high enough priority for us to take time together to do it. Now that decisions only involve a single person, it’s going to be a lot faster. And I have tons of free time every other week.<\/p>\n