Pile of Index Cards, and a very loose set of goals / tasks.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/u4dgr0tkxk4tk9npuvex5a

I find the physicality of cards is highly useful. I could use a better set of categories for specific activities, but that requires some changes to working space and desk.

I'm coming to rebel against a tremendous amount of electronic and online tools, as well as find the merits of not only pen-and-paper based systems, but of the critical utility of a dedicated office and work space.

Not that I'm fully there yet, but the highly-mobile, transitory, digital, and ephemeral mode (which I've attempted, for several decades) simply isn't suited to in-depth work.

Which becomes patently obvious when reading much of that written by those who espouse that.