I have a fairly complex set of feelings and thoughts about doing end of the year reviews/roundups/reflections and of resolutions, and if I get around to writing about them I'll link that here. Despite this, I was inspired by a trend amongst the YouTubers I still watch to make a bingo card of goals for the new year.
The goal is not really to achieve all of them, but rather to have a silly inspiration towards the things I'd like to accomplish as the year goes on.
Secondarily, I had the realization that I really don't have a good sense of the timespan that is "one year". Since my ADHD diagnosis I have been actively working on improving my timesense, and while "time blindness" will likely always be something I struggle with, I have noticed that there's really 2 kinds. 1.) Losing sense of time while embroiled in a task 2.) Having a sense of how long things take and what is sensible scheduling. I have some tools to help me with the first kind, like hourly chimes and people who check in with me, but I don't think it's really something that can "improve". But the second kind, I have found that I can improve! I may not gain a sense of how long things take as easily as others, but this is a learnable skill and I have seen improvement!
Increments of time that I now have a general sense of, in that I have an idea of what usual tasks I do fit within them, and can sortof schedule them: 20 minutes, 40 minutes, 2 hours, 1 day, 1 week, 6 weeks, 3 months
If it seems bizarre to you that I have a sense of 20 minutes but don't really have a sense of an hour, and that I have a sense of 3 months but not 1... you are not alone. I am also very puzzled by this, but I have found it to be true.
As my understanding of weeks and months have very much improved via the process of migrating a bullet journal forward (I have much more of a sense of a single month now than I once did.. but still not a full one), I figured that having some kind of vague yearly scheduling and reviewing could be beneficial on that basis. Knowing that I will likely get it wrong, and therefor have data with which to calibrate for later years.
And so,
I sat down to write down a list of 24 goals (having decided that the "free space" would be "Creating 2026 BINGO card". I thought about what tasks I'm in the middle of, what tasks I've been putting off, what tasks frequently end up being deprioritized because of a lack of immediacy. I managed about 17 before I reached out to Russ to help me brainstorm, which was a lot of fun to do together.
By the end of that, I had this list.
4 podcast episodes published Replace corner sink Finish Shark Make panels for library bench Rewire upstairs hallway lights (including switch) Mend 12 garments Write 1 song Complete Sunrise Potty Door Install baseboards & trim in library Publish 8 new website pages Create 1 article of clothing Finish binding 6 bujos "Meet the clown" interview game session Install insulation over rooms 4 and 12 Scan "Tales of the Frog" Build compost hutch thing Add filters to exaust fan set up in kitchen Plan a solution for the I-beam in room 1 Celebrate Dumpsterfest Unicycle .... something Kingette Zine Mail an art to Stephan (#strategiesagainstalgorithms) Build tray out of spare trim Build sewing table
Now to make the board.
I've been using Typst to build my ROMPWOD pages, and I knew from the guides that Typst has robust table making capabilities, but I had somewhat glossed over them, as I didn't have an immediate use for them with that project.
So here was a wonderful opportunity to play and learn!
It honestly didn't take too long before I knocked out something that is good enough for me to play with.
Key things that were particularly fun for me, as someone who's still getting used to the wizard-like experience of using vim-fu and command line tricks:
Reading my list of goals out of my personal wiki into the function #table( ) in my shiny new typst document.
Doing a line range specific replace of the start character on each line, and then one on the end character of each line to add the brackets and commas to turn my goals into arguments in the arguments list.
Randomizing the order of the goals with sort -R.
Eventually, after a bit of rewriting of one or two particularly wordy (or not quite well enough defined) goals, and many experiments with sizing and layout I had this
Which when I compile it with typst, creates this
I printed it out and have put it up in the middle of my corkboard in my office.
Then I filled in the center square and took a photo:
I shall try to remember to update this as this experiment progresses, at least with an end of the year summary of how I feel it went.
If you'd like to use my typst file for your own bingo card, feel free! (I expect you'll want to put in your own goals, though if somehow my entire goalset matches yours for the year... reach out! I want to know what on earth you're up to.)
P.S. Between creating the card and publishing this I have already realized that I misspelled Kingett, as well as "exhaust", but then, that's how my life is. I misspell things. I've left the misspellings in, as they're a part of the process, but am acknowledging it here.
published: 2026-01-16