Autofocus is a Single, Paper-Based List Organization System

Wed, Feb 11th, 2009

Autofocus, an organization system designed by personal organization author Mark Forster, is available for all. If you're looking for a linear, list-based system to help you get things done, Autofocus stresses simplicity and speed.

Photo by Paul Worthington.

The Autofocus system is oriented around dealing with work in a consistent and frequent way, to help workers quickly knock down mountains of work. The entire system can be used with nothing more than a pencil and a notebook filled with lined paper.

From the quick start guide on Mark's site:

The system consists of one long list of everything that you have to do, written in a ruled notebook (25-35 lines to a page ideal). As you think of new items, add them to the end of the list. You work through the list one page at a time in the following manner:

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