Wow, fun to hear what your planning styles are like! Thanks everyone for sharing!
@Emevsa I'm becoming a list maker! I'm terrible at sticking with a social media schedule, so maybe a weekly checklist will help me remember that...
@JeanGuillet I love the idea of a whiteboard/magnet board in front of my desk. I totally want to do that! I'm also hoping to keep better track of my mirrors and what's already queued up, etc.
@punkarsenic Yay spreadsheets! I've used the spreadsheet shown in this video that breaks everything down really well--maybe it's the same one?
@dawgofdawgness Yeah, it really helps me to have an update schedule, otherwise I'm afraid I'd forget or get waaay behind... For story timelines, in early stages I like putting the rough outline on sticky notes so I can rearrange events as new ideas come to me!
So, instead of actually working on something today, I've been designing my dream project planner, and here's what I came up with:
Index and year-at-a-glance goals--I currently have my rough yearly goals scribbled on a scrap of paper I'm probably going to lose, so I know I'd use this spread.
Weekly tracker--I'm currently marking off my posting schedule on a piece of graph paper, so I'd probably have lines for Webtoon, Tapas, Patreon, and social media so I could mark off when I have the week's episode posted. (Maybe half an x if the episode is uploaded, but needs to be manually posted.)
Daily Tracker--If I set a goal of "Work on flatting a bunch of episodes this month," "Write something on the script every day," etc, I can see how I'm doing on those goals. I also have a messy graph paper with monthly goals like this, so I'm pretty sure I'll use this spread, as well.
I included 6 project overview pages; this is where I'd put stuff like the number of pages/episodes, break down the pages into groups and give each group a rough deadline. This is also currently in a very messy three-ring-binder on graph paper.
Then 52 weekly goals/to-do lists (my desk is always littered with old envelopes covered in to-do lists, so I know I'll use this spread! Two columns, so one of them might end up being non-project stuff like, "Do the laundry!" )
At the end I put a dozen extra dot-grid pages for extra stuff I might want to keep track of...now if KDP print will approve the layout, I'm gonna order myself one and be SOOO organized you won't believe it!
I hope.