The thing that's worked out for me so far, is setting aside time specifically for recording and for editing. But I separate the two.
I'm a huge planner and literally record every 'to do' in a fancy planner I got for myself. It helps me manage my 'free time' and keep me from feeling overwhelmed. So I book periods of time to records and then periods of time for editing.
I've also started just taking my camera with me wherever I go. Juuuuust in case something happens that's noteworthy and could be changed into a video.
Just to piggyback off this, I stay most organized in my computer and other devices, so I found blog planners on pinterest, went into libreoffice (cuz i don't have word), tweaked them to my liking, and used them to make schedules for recording and uploading, a document for my description box (it's helped me get way closer to the 5,000 char max (I used to only reach, like, 160, I was bad at descriptions)), planned around my most empty days (or times of days) and just bought a small "emergency /backup" travel digicam bc my older one is huge and heavy, and I don't want to just film in my room all the time anymore. Which reminds me, I need to buy a new Webcam since my old one died on me.
Now, I just don't make any excuse. Forgot to mention I downloaded a calendar app (separate from the native icalendar bc I don't want to clog that one up, I'll never check it if I do...and I don't mess with that one for more than family birthdays, anyway), where I log which days I'm supposed to shoot and/or edit +upload (I keep those days separate so I don't overwhelm myself). The only thing I'll move around is which type of video I'll shoot depending on my available sunlight, since that's mostly what I get to work with where I live.
No use filming a makeup look if no one can see it, so then I'll probably just do a stoytime or trevor, but it stays pretty dark / cloudy around here, I won't be able to not shoot all winter if I care about my channel (oc, I do, otherwise I wouldn't be doing the most with this post rn).
I hope any of that can help you. I understand it's far more of a challenge for you, working 50 hours a week, this is just what helps me stay on track. I've only recently implemented these methods but they're working like a charm.
I'll need to be more diligent come vlogmas, though. I won't be able to just set aside a day to edit :/ hth?
if im not free ill upload a video from my phone as a quick little thing just so iv still got my content going in, i like post daily or every other day if i can
