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Tickler Problems
The ‘Tickler File’ is a great way of offloading things to do. If you decide to do something on a particular day, or just any day to get it done, you bung a note of it (or indeed the actual thing you need to action) into the Tickler File.
Problems start when something else arrives in your In Box, and you want to do it at the same time as something already in your Tickler File. Firstly, you’re reminded that both things need dealing with. Secondly, you have to go through your Tickler File to find the item.
My workaround is to action the second (and perhaps subsequent items), whilst filing them in the client’s folder. The action itself includes a reference to the first item which lives in the Tickler File.
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