How do you organize your turns?

[Micah]

I always make sure to go through my F1 list and check on commanders that have "defend" orders before I submit a turn, which helps a lot. I'll usually get the easy parts of the turn over with (gold-related stuff usually, including recruitment, since this tends to be an easy call)

Other than that I usually start with strategic planning and figure out what I need to get taken care of, either enemy threats or objectives I need to meet, and then assign resources as available in order to meet my goals for the turn. I also think about what I'll need for next turn and assign as needed for that, especially item forging. Once I have all my assets assigned the turn's pretty much ready to go. Hopefully that makes sense.

[vfb]

I look for the piece of paper where I wrote down what I had planned to do this month. I can't find it. I can't remember who I have a NAP with, so I read through all my PMs. I find all my commanders in mystery provinces and wonder what they are doing there, and send them back to the province they probably came from. I look in my item stash and put some items on commanders that may do some good, and send out those commanders on various missions. I look at my research, and curse when I find that I overflowed my last research level, and make a mental note to fix my research levels before I End Turn this time. I occasionally attempt to keep the game thread alive, and send some messages to my neighbors. I try to think of something fun to do next month, and write it down my plan on a piece of paper so I don't forget. And finally I put the piece of paper somewhere easy to find in a couple days when the turn hosts, and submit my turn. Oh, crap! I forgot to fix my research targets again.

[DonCorazon]

LOL! Sounds like my turns except I don't even have the piece of paper. Opponents who scout me must think it is some kind of head fake - why does he keep moving that army back and forth?

My magic lab gets filled with all sorts of junk that I don't remember why I forged it. And I usually balance my research just perfect so there is no overflow, then later I make one last minute forging change, forget to look and on the new turn, find I missed the key new research level by 2 points.