I've been retired from the business world now for over six years. Throughout my professional career, I endeavored to be the most organized and productive I could be, which generally meant I had to-do lists, logs, and journals everywhere, especially digitally.
Over time, I found my favorites of these and stuck with them consistently, every once in a while changing how I used them in order to improve my process.
Of course, disorganized people or those who do things loosey-goosey would be appalled if they knew how much time I committed to an inbox zero philosophy, folder management, etc. I guess I would be, too, if I was like them.
I'm not. Obviously.
My go-to online notetaking journal is Evernote. I use it for everything; an online diary, a task tracker, a writing idea collector, a web page captor. I've been using it for years. Before that, I used OneNote from Microsoft, but I liked the flexibility of Evernote better. Recently, I've been playing with other multi-platform apps. Bear is a current favorite for its markdown language support and I've just started trying Journal, a new multi-platform app that has some interesting organizing capabilities which I am trying out for current writing projects.
On the to-do side, I was quite satisfied with Wunderlist. It did everything I needed and did it well. Then Microsoft bought them out and many of the features I liked about Wunderlist disappeared with Microsoft To Do launch. Now I've just returned to one I tried years ago called Todoist, which actually has a lot of what Wunderlist did, but with a few more features. I really like it a lot.
Yesterday, I just installed an app called TrackingTime, which integrates with Todoist, which allows me to track how much time I spend on each writing project. Since I already use BusyBox, an iPhone app for this, I now have a way to get my data converged.
For a frustrated perfectionist like myself, this is as about as good as it can get. Color me thrilled.
Now, about my handwritten journal and my handwritten day planner...
Yours in productivity,
Michael
Over time, I found my favorites of these and stuck with them consistently, every once in a while changing how I used them in order to improve my process.
Of course, disorganized people or those who do things loosey-goosey would be appalled if they knew how much time I committed to an inbox zero philosophy, folder management, etc. I guess I would be, too, if I was like them.
I'm not. Obviously.
My go-to online notetaking journal is Evernote. I use it for everything; an online diary, a task tracker, a writing idea collector, a web page captor. I've been using it for years. Before that, I used OneNote from Microsoft, but I liked the flexibility of Evernote better. Recently, I've been playing with other multi-platform apps. Bear is a current favorite for its markdown language support and I've just started trying Journal, a new multi-platform app that has some interesting organizing capabilities which I am trying out for current writing projects.
On the to-do side, I was quite satisfied with Wunderlist. It did everything I needed and did it well. Then Microsoft bought them out and many of the features I liked about Wunderlist disappeared with Microsoft To Do launch. Now I've just returned to one I tried years ago called Todoist, which actually has a lot of what Wunderlist did, but with a few more features. I really like it a lot.
Yesterday, I just installed an app called TrackingTime, which integrates with Todoist, which allows me to track how much time I spend on each writing project. Since I already use BusyBox, an iPhone app for this, I now have a way to get my data converged.
For a frustrated perfectionist like myself, this is as about as good as it can get. Color me thrilled.
Now, about my handwritten journal and my handwritten day planner...
Yours in productivity,
Michael
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