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I was taking out the 2019 bingo cards from my stack, and noticed that I had a lot of blackouts -- I move them to the back when complete.

In 2019, I made 1 blackout.

In 2020, I made 6 blackouts: Less Usual Bingo Patterns (January), Food Fest (March), Sumerian Me (May), Fall Festival (October), Sense-Ation (November), and Winter Fest (December). \o/ That is the most I've ever made in a year! I think it was typically 1-2 a year before this.

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dialecticdreamer

Of course, it was in part because everyone was parked at home for far more than the usual amount of time!

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ysabetwordsmith

Huh, I hadn't even thought of that, I thought it had to do with good new topics and a few strokes of luck where I broke effectively one poem into several. But you're right, too; I wasted much less time this year going places, so I had more time to write.

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dialecticdreamer

Unfortunately, I have to be careful how I spend time online, since I'm supposed to be researching but can get very distracted. Add to that the variable functionality of comorbid disabilities, and it makes planning anything hard.

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ysabetwordsmith

This year I am experimenting with bullet journaling to track how often I do things. I am not great at remembering to record things, but this method seems simple enough it might actually work for me.

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dialecticdreamer

When hubby was hospitalized, I knew that my brain was NOT going to be a steel trap. I was under too much stress to sleep more than two hours at a shot. So, I bought a cheap composition book and skipped the first three or four pages to create a table of contents, then simply wrote the date on the top of each page.

Then I got up, did my morning tasks, and as soon as I got to the hospital, I started writing down the things I'd done. Read aloud to hubby? Note it. Changed my ringtone (for reason), note it and the reason. And so on. Even so, I missed two or three days at a go until I started getting a grip on the details.

Bullet journaling doesn't get much simpler than a list of things done each day, in a few words each.