Just a short post today—because, honestly, I’m just riding the high of a productive day.
Some people measure productivity in hours worked, tasks logged, or streaks in their favorite to-do app. I measure mine in crumpled-up Post-it notes.
This morning, I sat down with a desk cluttered with reminders, ideas, and half-finished tasks stuck to the bottom of my monitor. A mess of priorities. No clear place to start. So, I went old-school—I started from the left and worked my way across, tackling each note one by one. No fancy productivity hacks, no digital tools. Just a simple, physical system: write it, do it, crumple it.
By the end of the day, I had knocked out six major tasks that had been hanging over my head all week—big ones I’d been avoiding. And instead of a monitor lined with Post-its, I had a mountain of crumpled paper on my desk. A satisfying, tangible reminder of progress.
And yet, I did recently buy an Apple Pencil to cut down on my Post-it habit. In theory, I could be doing all of this digitally, in a sleek, modern way. But breaking habits takes time, and honestly, nothing beats the visceral satisfaction of physically crumpling a note when a task is done. It’s productivity you can feel.
Maybe I’ll eventually make the switch. Maybe. But for now, I’ll embrace the Post-it graveyard—because today, it means I got things done.
