Digital Planner: Moving Away From My Paper Planner
In early June, I decided to make the big and scary (for me) step away from paper, and embracing a fully digital planning solution. At the beginning of this month I'll talk about how I did this, and what it has gotten me.
Shareable: Simple Can Be Harder Than Complex
Save Time By Automating with IFTTT
What if you could save time transferring information between systems? Or save yourself having to look things up? Automation gives you that help. Today we will talk about my favorite automation system, IFTTT (IF This Then That).
Keeping Someday/Maybe in Line with Evernote
What do you do with all the things you'd like to do someday, but just don't want to be bothered by now? David Allen suggests creating a someday/maybe list. It's a good idea - get the things down into a system that you'll review and decide if you truly want to do those things, and if so, when. I embraced the idea of a someday/maybe list when I read Getting Things Done. Here was a great way that I could keep track of all the things I wanted to do! But my someday/maybe turned into a never list. I talked about it in the article "Is Your Someday-Maybe List A Never List?". Today I'll explain how I implement that in Evernote, my tool for notes.
Quickly Decide on Projects and Tasks: My Remember The Milk Process
In the last article I talked about my Remember The Milk setup in general. Since Remember The Milk (RTM) is my power tool, I also wanted to cover in specifics how I have RTM set up so that I can quickly decide on projects and tasks for every week and day.
Tending Tasks With Remember The Milk
Remember the Milk is the backbone of my productivity system. It is what I work from, period. Today I'll talk about my basic setup, and then in the next article I will show you how I set myself up for the week.
Shareable: I don’t have time
Use Email For Email Only
In August we are taking a look at the details of my personal productivity system. Today we will look at how I handle the place where most of the information I need to deal with ends up: email.
