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title: "Weekly planning - just get rid of that damn calendar" 
date: 2021-03-28
draft: true 
tags: ["blabla","life","productivity"]
series: [""]
--- 
I started planning my weeks in advance last week:

- Job
- personal growth
- Sports
- ... you name it

After I was on the classic road last week, I just did everything differently this week, more on that later.

## The last week
I planned the week through the classic way with my notes and a calendar. Since I am not completely insane, I had previously worked out a template that made the weekly planning easier for me.

So far so good, but a calendar? I have absolutely no idea how a calendar could ever have been helpful with this. Of course, you can enter XYZ's birthday or a visit from business partner blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah bla trails.

But I thought I would give it a try anyway, i.e. I saved my routines as recurring events, defined work blocks etc. etc.

Unfortunately, I don't have a screenshot anymore because I deleted the calendar after 2 days and chased the hell out of it, but it was easy:

- overfilled
- confusing
- distracting
- disturbing

## Back to Omnifocus
I recently wrote about the [correct tool is just an excuse] (https://www.m3tam3re.com/2021/21-19-03/), but I promptly found my first exception.

I used Omnifocus years ago and at that time discarded Omnifocus in favor of Basecamp in favor of teamwork and co.

After I had meticulously planned everything for the coming week last Sunday and plunged into my well-planned but confusing week, it fell like scales from my eyes on Tuesday. It's so much easier with Omnoficus.

Without wanting to present a program here, here are a few key aspects:

- Postpone tasks: When I plan my week, I can postpone tasks that I don't want to do this week anyway. If I have now set my perspectives correctly, these tasks have completely disappeared, so I only see the tasks that are really relevant for the week
- Daily planning: I have my own perspective for planning the next day.
- Today: I have set up a  Today  perspective. Only objects that I have assigned in the daily planning are displayed here. As a result, I really only see what is interesting for the day.
- Task recording: I can use a hotkey to record a new task or note within seconds. This enables me to go back to work immediately in the event of a malfunction. Hotkey -> Note -> back to the task

## Today's planning
My weekly planning today was ridiculously easy compared to last week. It only took me 30 minutes and it was even fun.

The best part is that I am sure that I had everything in view and guaranteed not to overlook anything. The week can come.

Nevertheless, I want to gradually develop and improve the [[weekly planning with omnifocus]].