A productivity technique combining both physical and digital media for their respective strengths.
The Medium Method comes from the Todoist Productivity Articles, I haven’t really seen it anywhere else by that name. It’s quite simple.
Use Physical Media Throughout the Day
Carry a pen and a notebook. Use post-its. Capturing Notes. Capturing Tasks. Capturing Logs Do general Ongoing Capture & Bullet Journaling.
Transcribe to Digital Each Night
Do a Daily Review each night in which you look over your notes from the day and process any actions or ideas into a digital repository. Offload tasks from the page to a Task Manager. Capture deadlines or appointments into your calendar. Add ideas worth developing to your Evergreen Notes. Send Tweets about whatever jokes you thought of.
Benefits
- lack of distraction - notebooks don’t have apps
- Active processing (not transcribing) causes you to remember more by writing less
- Free-form & fun
- Immediate Progressive Summarization, distilling fleeting thoughts and notes into a permanent system keeps cruft out.