How many things are you trying to do at once?

Here's a trick I've been trying. This is difficult, which I think reveals just how much we flit between tasks in the course of a day. I haven't managed to do it well yet.

Open a new note. Just a blank text file will do, it's not forever. Now, as you go through your day, every time you're doing something, identify what that thing is in your Johnny.Decimal system.

I'm at work all day. So whatever I'm doing has to be represented there somewhere. Am I working on a 21 product or 31 marketing? Helping 33 customers? To make this easier as you start out it's good enough to note a category or even an area number. But an ID is better.

By the end of the day this note should be like a run-sheet of all the stuff you did. Every time you switch, update it.

Can you do it?

100% human. 0% AI. Always.