Thanks for the clarification–I can really visualize your system now. The example of the Visa bill was a good one–before I was wondering about “tasks without projects”. Maybe because I make a project out of everything ;-D

I’m going to overhaul my To-Do’s this weekend and test drive your system this week. I’ll keep you posted!

Yes, I am still using this system. I have experimented with some other online tools in the interim, but I keep coming back to this as what works for me and I’ve stopped experimenting. I find the process of working things out on paper very useful for me, and having it all in one place keeps me organized.

To answer your question, I write the list of tasks associated with a project on the project sheet. Sometimes I’ll have a single task that’s not associated with a larger project (say ‘Pay visa bill’), in which case there’s no project page and I just write that single task on the main ‘Household’ project list sheet.

To keep track of daily to-dos, each day I use one of Levenger’s to-do list sheets (the little ones), which I keep in the front of my Circa notebook. I go through my projects and tasks and transfer items from there onto the daily to-do list. I can also add emergent tasks to that to-do list during the day and if they don’t get done, place them on an appropriate project sheet. This process acts as a daily mini-review, which is helpful in keeping everything on track.

Hope this makes sense, and I’m glad this post was so helpful for you.

After having Circa since October, I’m finally ready to move forward and re-think my to-dos, which are a bit hairy right now. I was wondering: when you write your list of projects and tasks on the first page, are you writing the tasks for the projects on that page? Or is that what the project sheet is for?

Also, what about the daily stuff you do–i.e. post, check feedburner, exercise, etc. Do you find it useful to track these at all or put them on a To Do List?

Thanks for writing this post; it really got me started on Circa!

Yours is an interesting and unique system; I’ve been using the To-Do lists for my tasks and projects, but the unfinished To Dos get a little unwieldy. I think I might try out your system and see how that works for me.