We are Time’s Subjects, and Time Bids Be Gone

🌿Annette Raffan 🌼
6 min readMay 11, 2023

I’m looking for some advice on task management. I need a method with intrinsic value which transcends digital applications.

White background with black clock faces with task management advice wanted written. Also a note for my website annetteraffan.co.uk and a my medium username @dandelionmind

Too much to ask?

Medium is mostly filled with people giving advice. That’s OK; it’s a good thing.

I do it all the time. I love putting opinions into a melting pot and seeing what happens. Sometimes general consensuses emerge from the ether.

That’s why I love my system for knowledge management. It’s not perfect, but I have a system in place to deal with everything. I put things in and sometimes themes emerge. I love using Obsidian for this.

Obsidian is my happy knowledge place.

But the idea of applying a similar approach to task management has, as yet, eluded me. Kind of like my ability, or lack thereof, to appreciate Shakespeare. So lets try to do both.

And that’s where I would like your help.

I’m looking for a task management happy place.

O task management, o task management. Wherefore art thou task management?

If there’s one thing people like to talk about, its productivity. I don’t have a problem with my productivity but I do have a problem around the concept of…

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🌿Annette Raffan 🌼

📚 Postgraduate researcher figuring out the researcher life one method at a time, introspective, plant person.