When I first stumbled upon the Analog Daily Focus kit by Ugmonk a couple of years ago, I really liked the basic idea: Having your daily todo list prominently on your desk where you could quickly tick stuff off or add new items sounded awesome! I didn’t pick it up because it felt too inflexible and static to me. What would I do while on the go or at a different office location? Where would I get new cards?
Recently I had received a little business/picture stand for my desk that remembered me off that concept. I combined it with my two Plotters and, all of a sudden, I had a working setup that solved my original issues!
I had recently started taking notes out of my Plotters while working on them. Instead of letting them just fly around on my desk, I thought about using that stand! Of course it is not at stylish as Ugmonks product (or one of that hundreds of similar products) but it offered me the flexibility to have my tasks visible while at my desk and a mobile solution by just putting the project holders and task lists back into their respective Plotter binders.
I’m pretty sure I’m going to iterate on the stand itself in the future. It only works for me right now since I use a postcard or a project folder in the back so that I can put both my personal and my work lists onto the stand at the same time. The card & pencil tray by MinimalDesktopSetups or a similar product might be a better fit. Although, it would probably still require a postcard or something like that to stabilize the Midori paper.
That being said, I really like my current setup there! It might even make me use Plotter project folders more in the future since I’m now more willing to just open the binder and get paper sheets out of it when I’m working on them!
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