I started writing "completed" dates on my scores.

[1piano4joe]

Hi all,

Anybody else do this? Is this just my OCD or what?

It's not that this is something completely new that I started doing but rather I wish I had done more compulsively on every single piece I have ever studied.

Is there some useful purpose for doing this?

I think, for me, it's just my curiosity of how long ago did I study/learn the piece. Also, I feel I can see, yet another example of my accomplishments which I feel is important when I'm feeling "stuck" and not making much progress. This "plateau thing of mine" is probably, more in my mind than a reality. Practically, anything I do piano related, I should view as progress but I often don't see it that way.

Ever since I can remember, I always put both a check mark when I have a piece up to tempo and as musical as I can get it at the time but for some reason have often left off the date. Sometimes, I have "post its", that tell me the number of days, sessions I have worked on it. And these have dates, months and years as well as how I practiced the piece notes. (Hands separate tempos, H.T. tempos, phrase tempos, section tempos and difficult measures, sections, etc.)

If I don't get a piece up to tempo, it generally does not get this checkmark. And I maybe return to it at a later time. But at least the "post its" serve to let me know that I have devoted some time to learning/studying the piece and just how far I far I got with it.

Thanks, Joe.

[lelle]

I don't but I wish I did  I have kept track of everything I have worked on since 2012 in a word document but before that it gets more hazy. And the word doument does not provide exact dates, just a general order I worked on and "finished"/put aside the pieces in question.

For me, it's useful because I can see if I am working on a good variety of pieces, or finishing many or few of them in a given year. I felt it helps telling me how I'm doin' and where I might go next.

[j_tour]

It's a nice idea.

I don't ever feel finished with a piece, so I do sort of a similar thing with multiple lists.  Old repertoire I desire to keep in memory.  A dozen or so works on "active duty."  A few technical things I desire.  And a list of some works that are active, but deprioritized.

Over the past year, I must say, the lists have remained unchanged!  Kind of got sidetracked, but the ideas are still there.