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PTPL 121: Getting Focused With a 4-Quadrant Weekly Planning Matrix

Plus an invitation to look back and see how far you’ve come

Ellane W
3 min readSep 9, 2024

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The way we manage our personal knowledge can and should evolve to fit our changing needs. Here’s the 4-quadrant weekly planning matrix I’m using to plan my life, 7 days at a time.

No AI here; all words, ideas, and faults 100% human made. While paid subscribers are enormously encouraging and help me to keep writing, non-subscribers are always welcome to read for free.

This time last year I wrote —

How has your personal knowledge management structure changed in the last six months? Are you feeling better or worse about how things are running now, than you were at the beginning of the year?

To answer my own question(s), my PKM has changed significantly over the past 12 months, and I’m feeling a whole lot better about it than I was at the beginning of the year.

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Ellane W
Ellane W

Written by Ellane W

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans