I’ve gotten into the habit of carrying a post-it pad around with me at work. These days my memory is so bad (and my attention-span even worse) that it is essential.
It has become a kind of Pensive (Harry Potter). My consciousness externalized.
It’s a good habit to have, because I’ve been busy as hell and without it I’d just be a zombie going from one half-started task to the next, and not actually getting much completed at all.
Where do you put your post-its? Do you end up looking like this guy, Lobsang? 
How extensive are the notes you write; IOW, does your memory hold up for what the scribbles are supposed to mean?
On the last job I worked, I inherited old papers of course, among which were tens or perhaps hundreds of Post-It notes that meant nothing to me. I felt a little bad trashing them but it’s not like all that work helped me any. 
Luckily my memory does hold up for what the scribbles mean. And they really are scribbles.
I write lists on the notes. I write really small. When a post-it’s list has a few items dealt with on it I will sometimes re-write the shortened list, with new tasks added, on a new post it and scrap the old one.
The whole system falls apart when I put the post it pad down somewhere and forget where. There are pads everywhere.
I wonder if you can get personallized pads?
Please may I Purchase some Pensive Post-it Pads Pronto.
Heck, yes. Our printing shop at work produces all kinds of them for us. (Promise you’ll put “From the Desk of Lobsang”, and then include a Ziggy cartoon “I had it all organized and then forgot where I put it”. That never goes out of style. 
)
pERHAPS.
I thought it was spelt “Pensieve”?
I’ve tried post-its and…well not to knock their greatness, but they still fall quite short of having a personal white board. You can get little ones that are only a bit bigger than a foot squared, though the bigger the better.
Though even the mighty white board falls short from having everyone in the company attached to a bug database like Bugzilla. That is great since things come in in prioritized versions, your tasks stay until you mark them as complete, you can add further comments, send a task to yourself or someone else in the company, and you get a notification back when someone completes something that you tasked to them. Though not very many companies use bug databases as an all-purpose tool throughout the company.
And all this time I thought the SDMB filled this function for you. You mean there’s yet more minutiae you haven’t shared with us?
