Here is how i plan to better organize my paper filled day. Now, i am an aspiring writer, and yoga mat linguist, and i like to work with paper (the aesthetics are nice).
The problem is that when i quickly scan over the desktop’s surface in front of me, it is not easy to tell what is there—work or play. If these two things were separated, my mind might be more at ease, taking the burden of determining the data before me away, allowing me to actually focus on the moment.
is it redundant to say organization nazi?
On my desk i see two different types of papers that i have written on. There is a spiral bound notebook with swedish words defined in english and german—a list i have been building from watching swedish films (notice how it is influencing my orthography—also my syntax, see: swedish syntax, and compare to modern english and german constructions in relation to older english forms); and there are pages with sundry ways with words: thoughts on life, what type of shoes i should get for my trip to sweden, that i need to ask Robert something—and so on.
The first type is what i call work—or maybe the yield of productivity.
The other i would say is play, for the papers caught my thoughts as i entertained myself watching movies or whatever i did in the day.
The work came from following through with a plan scribbled on the papers from play.
Now just make them distinct.
A while ago when i used spiral notebooks and folders for my classes, i color coded. Math had a green folder, and i used a green hilighter to make the edges of the pages of the green-covered spiral bound notebook also green, also used for math. So in this way i looked into my backpack at giant colors. Math, as stated, was green, english was usually blue, and german, yellow. Then i had some floating papers, which were idea papers, like the play mentioned above, and some papers for classes that really didn’t give out many, like yoga—i did not feel the need to have an entire folder for my 3 yoga papers.
So there i had distinction between the categories of my papers–exemplified in my organization for classes, such as between german, calculus, english, and yoga. But i did not have a distinction between a paper created as work, like a word hoard (but still fun to make), or random musings of the day.
But i feel now that even my idea papers should be categorized and made distinct from the work. No more floating papers, and sub-folder organization must also change to make distinctions therefor.
So i will be talking later in coming days and weeks how this is working out.
