How I stay organized
December 6th, 2007
I’m not perfectly organized. I’m probably a bad example of organization. But at work, I like to think I am organized.
1. Time Tracking: I track all of my time at work religiously. I know exactly what I was doing and when on any day this year (billable and non billable work).
2. Calendar: I organize my days with Google Calendar. In our office, we have a “Tornado Deadlines” calendar so any time we promise a client something it’s added.
3. To-Do-Lists: We use Todoist for tracking our to do list. We have a separate category for every one of our customers and share it in our office. Everyone knows what items are due today and in the next two weeks.
4. Email: In Outlook, I flag emails that need to be responded to. Only after that is completed, added to our Todoist task list do I unflag it. Or when the email is responded to.
What other tools do you use for tracking your life? There are so many ways to track projects and time and money. We’re working on a few that we will be releasing as well.
The good news is that everyone in our office uses these same tools (team of 3 people). This makes collaborating that much easier!
December 20th, 2007 at 12:22 am
I used to use gubb.net for my to-do list and Backpack for notes, but Google Notebook pretty much replaced them both – so I’m pretty much 100% Google at the moment. I even have the misses sharing Google Docs now.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:29 pm
Thanks Tomas!
There are so many different to-do list apps. It’s amazing. I’ll have to checkout Google Notebook.
December 31st, 2007 at 2:19 pm
Love these screen shots Chris, thanks for sharing them. What makes todoist the best to-do app? We use Basecamp’s To-Do’s daily.
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Ward, glad you like the list. The only failing of Todoist is that you cannot assign a task to a particular person. Other than that, it’s wonderfully easy to navigate between lists, view all of your todo items for TODAY or by priority. Plus, I like the layout better than Basecamp.