How Do You Organise Yourself and Your Life?
Published on September 28, 2017
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Hello all,
Today I am writing about organization skills and tools. What do you use and how?
It's an irony that before the advent of computers with their apps and online calendars and organizers, planners etc, it was simply a matter of writing down what needed to be done [in a book/notepad] and then just getting on with it - life.
If you wanted to find a note - too easy! Just go to the book you used to write your notes in.
If you wanted to find a document - too easy! Just go to the filing cabinet where all documents were filed.
If you wanted to know where you needed to be and when - too easy! Just open up your calendar with that cool ribbon thingy and voila, you're on the right year, right month, right day [page] so just look down to the respective time slot and that's your where and when.
Then came along technology with the promise of simplifying our lives. Everything was now in one place ... or is it???
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Documents (word/pages, excel/numbers, powerpoint/keynote and, and, and) became electronic and they still needed to be filed away but how many of you have sat there in a quandary wondering where you actually filed that document that you so desperately need now? Which folder? What did you name the folder? Is it on the desktop or the laptop that I was working on last night?
Shoot, never mind WHERE I filed it - what did I call the document? I can't even search for it because you don't know what you called it.
Tools or apps then promised to sort this out because now we can put everything into one place e.g. Evernote.
Well, once again, I find myself in the same quandary - I have no idea how to use Evernote efficiently and end up in a trial and error seek and find mission [impossible], to find notes which end up being very disjointed because I have multiple notes on the same subject. Even if they are in the same 'notebook', there're still a few of them.
Storage dilemmas - Google Drive or Dropbox or Cloud or External Drive or ...
Calendars - Google Calendar, Asana, iCal ...
Photos and videos take up more space and end up being on more devices than ever. I have the same photos on my phone and laptop and computer. Yes, I could just use the cloud to "put everything up there" but if I delete it from 'source' (my phone say), doesn't it remove it from the cloud as well - synchronization and all that garb. Now I have no photo!
Mulitple devices - phone, iPad, notepad, laptop, desktop and who knows what else.
Planners, Calendars, Notes, Documents, Photos, Videos.... I swear I have used up all the space on my computer because I have everything in duplicate, triplicate and more.
Passwords!!! I have never had to remember so many arbitrary names, numbers, codes, and random sequences of numbers and letters as I have to now. Previously I would have said, don't even go there, but I think I have this ONE thing under control - I use LastPass but also have 'The Vault' on my phone. There are just some things I don't like to put out into cyberspace.
Do you have a simple method of organizing your life? How do you work? I'd really love to hear from you.
Have an awesome day
Gary :o)
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