Weekly zine: the latest iteration

I’ve noticed a recurring theme in much of the best productivity advice, the kind that seems to make life more meaningful, as well as merely more productive: it’s that you should think about your work, and life-projects in general, in terms of concrete physical actions and artifacts in the material world.

• Oliver Burkeman

It’s time for another entry in the ongoing productivity and zine saga. Having finished up my most recent weekly zine (in the format elaborated on here), I decided to make some changes. Namely:

• Having a whole page-side just for weekly goals and ongoing projects was a lot, especially given this zine was for organising myself in the edges around my day job.
• It also didn’t actually help build links between my higher-level goals (eg monthly, quarterly, or yearly objectives) and what I was doing on a week to week basis.

The solution: another iteration of the zine. This version has:

• A title page. Left blank so I can write whatever I want on the front as a mantra. We’ll see how that does wearing against the cover of my notebook.
• A two page spread where I can write down my quarterly goals, and what I want to do over the next month that contributes to them. I’m still trialling/hacking Objectives and Key Results to try to organise my higher-level projects, but to be honest whatever system you have should work for you.
• A set of four one-page weekly schedules which should keep me tracking from week to week.

That equals seven pages, so I’ve got a blank page on the back. Perfect!

You can see the result below:

And if you’d like to try it for yourself, go nuts: