I’ve been trying to get myself organized for a while now, though I never really tried paper. I pretend to have a solution based on Things – both app on my Mac and iPhone but in reality it sucks when computer is not around because either the app on iphone is way out of sync (I often forget to sync it) or, if I’m in my home wifi area- on startup the app would automatically start sync process which takes 1-5 minutes and which is just enough for me to forget what I was about to write down.

I’ve noticed interesting pattern over a time – everyone who I know is pretty well organized (or tries to become one) uses paper – Merlin Mann from 43folders uses paper, Leo Babauta who writes on Zenhabits, Tom Limoncelli, who wrote Time Management for System Administrators both use paper and now you, you also use paper. I’m starting to believe there’s a good reason for that.. I mean I wouldn’t if I wouldn’t know that all these people are actually familiar with computers – Merlin is absolute computer geek, Tom writes books for system administrators, Leo writes blogs and sells ebooks, Baron uses word MySQL.

Indeed there must be something special about that scrap of paper.