Analogue Productivity: Bring more value to work with paper and a pen
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No software is going to fix your feeling of being rushed all the time. In fact, so often it only makes matters worse because you can push decisions off to the future. Future you hates that because they have all the decisions to make and no more time than they do now.
Analogue Productivity introduces you to how Curtis uses the Bullet Journal system and Trello to manage an entire web development business. There is no other task manager to get things lost in.
This step-by-step guide to a clear head provides:
– The 10 Key Concepts that Curtis uses when choosing new tools
– A step by step guide to running an online business with paper and a pen
– How Curtis deals with email in an analogue system
– How Curtis sets his goals, because yearly goals suck
– What it takes to manage projects that require collaboration
– How you can store all the little digital bits that come you way
ASIN : B07BZZD9WK
Publisher : Hazel St Press (April 5, 2018)
Publication date : April 5, 2018
Language : English
File size : 32302 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 226 pages
6 reviews for Analogue Productivity: Bring more value to work with paper and a pen
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TIMOTHY HOKE –
Invaluable for anyone who wants to become productive
I’ve been reading Curtis’ content for over a year. Recently I’ve been using a notebook for managing my work and so I was excited to see that Curtis was writing a book on doing just that.Curtis does a great job of laying the foundation for your system before getting into the nitty-gritty of Analogue Productivity. In this, he recognizes that the problem with productivity is not typically the tools we use, but us. If we are “repaired” then we will be prepared to look at our tools more critically to see if they are suited to our needs.Once that is accomplished (and I encourage other readers not to skip the first section), Curtis very clearly outlines his system of using pen and paper to manage his business and life. This helped me push from being somewhat frustrated with taking notes, to thinking through my system and making it work for me.
Robert Talbert –
5-star content; execution needs work
This book is a well-written, practical, and insightful collection of thoughts and tools for reclaiming real productivity that centers on the human experience. A lot of productivity books that seem to focus on making the reader into a productivity machine, becoming more and more efficient with handling our stuff until there is zero friction in how it all works. But Curtis wisely points out as a major theme of the book that friction is good, and we need to be thinking a lot harder about what we let into our systems in the first place.Hence the focus on analog, which has lots of constraints — but the constraints are features, not bugs. It uses Ryder Carroll’s bullet journal concept as the main “platform” with helpful tweaks added on. (Putting project logs starting in the back of the journal and moving forward is a brilliant hack, for example.) The end result is probably the best book on bullet journaling out there, including Ryder’s own book on the subject, at least for those of us who cringe at all the Instagram-worthy “bujo” (cringe) stuff and just want to be more productive, and more mindful about it. I never thought I would abandon my digital GTD tools for a bullet journal but I’m totally doing it now.The main gripe I have with the book is that it needs SERIOUS editing. It is full of grammatical and spelling errors — I lost count of how many times he used “to” instead of “too”; the word “project” is misspelled in the *title* of the chapter *on project management*; and so on. Also the links given to various tools are not clickable in the Kindle version. He says that the book started as a short blog post and kind of blew up from there — and it shows. A second edition is in order IMO.
Rafal M –
Sound productivity advice using pen and paper solution
The book provides a really good overview of a personal productivity system for managing tasks and project using Bullet Journal as its base.It’s well laid out with different productivity concepts building one on another. While the book focuses on using pen and paper to stay productive, the concepts shared in the book apply to both digital and non-digital solutions.Two elements which I particularly liked were different actions steps to take which help with designing and enhancing the system.Secondly aside from a very tactical advice on how to implement the whole system there is a lot of emphasis on strategic thinking, personal vision, core quadrants. These elements not only help with establishing a direction but also act a sounding board to ensure one focuses on the right actions and projects.One aspect which made reading bit awkward were the spelling and grammatical errors which broke the reading flow.Despite these the book is definitely worth taking a look especially if you want to create a paper based task management solution and are looking for sound productivity advice.
Jason R. –
Time to build a good productivity system for you!
If there’s one guy that I would go to for any productivity tips, it’s Curtis — in this digital time we live in, it’s refreshing to still see the pen and paper work effectively to grow your business.Feel like you are spending too much time with tools and fighting them to try and get it to work for you?This is the book for you then!
Samuel Tremblay –
Real life productivity information
The Bullet journal part have real good information.That was a fresh view about bullet journal from a guy who use bullet journal as a productivity tool instead of an art project like too many example we view on web.The transition however between chapters and sections indicates a clear lack of editor. I see at one place something like : “as you will read in this post…” which is obvious that the author copy and paste from a post without changing words.There are too many links that are broken which is a little bit frustrating.Sum up, if I judge a book based on how many nuggets of knowledge that I acquire, this is is a gem for me.
Robert Killington –
I’d have given the book a five-star rating except for the number of errors that show that no one has proofread the copy. All the words appear to be correctly spelt, but they may not be the right words or even in the right order.The author is a software coder. The latter part of the book is aimed primarily at his type of work. The first part is aimed at using an analogue system, based around the Bullet Journal. For that, it is a good book and worth buying. I read the book in a few hours, making notes, as I read, of the things I found interesting. Remember to take from the book what you find useful, rather than using the techniques without question. You can reread it another time, and you will find something different that is useful to youâ.