![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve written before of my love of Remember the Milk, and I still use the program to try to keep track of different things - particularly recurring to-dos. At the end of the meeting I can quickly see what needs to be done, who’s said they’ll do it, and, hopefully, by what time - these action items will be ultimately added to the master to do list.Īutomate what you can. Something I’ve done since my lawyering days has been to take a Post-It with me to meetings and keep track (separately from my meeting notes) what action items needed to be done after the meeting - I still do this today with meetings and phone calls. Where possible, I keep a master list of tasks to do based on these brain dumps. I’m a big believer in batching tasks that are similar, such as calls, errands, low energy tasks (like researching or light reading), or “2-minute” tasks (where “it’ll just take 2 minutes”). At the end of the day I try to delegate what I can, and assess priority/steps involved for the other things I scribbled down throughout the day. As I go through my tasks, when any little thought comes into my head, I just scribble it on the paper and move on. So I like to take a piece of scrap paper and brain dump as much as possible into several lists: personal, business, and delegateable. I tend to have a thousand little thoughts roaming around my head at any given moment (I joke that I’m one of those people with 72 tabs open in my brain) and they often interfere when I’m trying to focus on whatever task is at hand. ![]() I could definitely improve, though, so I’m curious to hear what works for you guys!īrain dump. ![]() My own system is kind of simple (she said, preparing multiple bullet points) - OK, it’s not terribly simple, but it KIND of works for me. Great question, E! We’ve talked about different tools for time management, how to organize your office, as well as how to choose a great planner, and how to find a system like Getting Things Done, but I don’t think we’ve talked about how to keep track of different work to-dos. Do people write down their assignments on their calendars, keep a paper to do list? Some other system? I would love a post on how people keep track of work to-dos. How do you keep track of different task items at work, readers? What are your best tips for how to keep track of work to-dos? Reader E wonders… ![]()
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