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Yet another new task-management system from Mark Forster

10 February 2010

Mark Forster is my time management guru. As I’ve blogged about before, I loved his book, Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management. I used his DIT system for managing tasks for a year or so, and then he introduced Autofocus in January 2009. I was a little reluctant to switch at first, because DIT was working for me, but I decided to try it. I was over the moon. (I’ve blogged about Autofocus many times.)

Now, Mark’s done it again. He’s introduced—in a very preliminary form—a new system he’s calling DWM (short for Day/Week/Month) which, for me anyway, combines what I liked about DIT (the ability to finish my tasks for the day and use a calendar for my task list) and what I like about Autofocus (that it forces me to do a task or let it go).

Mark’s opened up DWM to the public to test and give feedback on. The instructions are simple. So far, I’m digging it. For the moment I’m using pages from an old planner and I’m looking forward to my new Quo Vadis Notor daily planner to arrive. When that happens, I think I’ll like it even more.

If you have tried it (or try it in the near future) be sure to give Mark your feedback on his discussion forum and/or leave a comment here.

Tagged with: autofocus, balance, control, desk, empowerment, focus, goals, mark forster, priorities, productivity, task management, time management, to-do list

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