lee582•16d ago

My sister saw my weekly spread and said it looked like a crime scene

I was showing off my new weekly layout last month, all proud of the color coding. I had red for urgent tasks, black for regular stuff, and a bright orange highlighter for deadlines. My sister took one look and said, 'Lee, this looks like a murder board from a cop show. Are you tracking a serial killer or your grocery list?' I laughed, but she had a point. The next week, I swapped the red for a calm blue and the orange for a soft green. My journal went from looking like I was solving a case to just planning my week. It's way less stressful to open now. Has anyone else had a color scheme totally miss the mark?

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williams.luna16d ago

Funny how the vibe of a color can totally change a task, right? It's like how a red "sale" sign feels urgent, but a red note on your own to-do list just feels like yelling. Maybe we're all just trained by marketing to see certain colors as outside problems we need to solve, not our own stuff.

ruby_bell4716d agoMost Upvoted

So what was your old system actually called?

garcia.wren16d ago

Wait, why change it though? That old system sounds way more effective. Red for urgent tasks makes them actually stand out and feel important, which they are. A calm blue just blends into everything else and you'll probably miss it. And @ruby_bell47, I bet the old system was called something like the "high-impact visual priority method" or whatever, because it worked. My whole planner is red and orange on purpose. It gets my heart rate up a little when I open it and I actually get stuff done. Soft colors just make me want to take a nap, not tackle my deadlines.