Placing different things in a logical arrangement allowing better usage and searching.
7
votes
4answers
349 views
What's a good system to organise paperwork at home
Can someone please recommend me a good system which I can use to organise paperwork at home.
I need to organise paperwork for all family members and the paperwork involves.
Car insurance
Home ...
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votes
8answers
799 views
What tools/techniques are useful in managing notes in different physical/digital locations?
When keeping numerous notes on any number of subjects, whether personal, work, school, etc, it's easy to let the notes grow out of control, and start missing things. I run into this a lot. I have ...
5
votes
2answers
104 views
How Should I Organize the Clutter That I Accumulate During the Week?
I think I'm facing a problem that most people face.
And I think that some people deal with this problem better than others.
My wife and I work 9-5 jobs.
When we arrive home, after a day at work, ...
16
votes
9answers
525 views
How do you organize ideas?
I'm trying to figure out the best way to manage all the ideas related to a project (drawings, text, pseudocode, etc.). Until now I tried:
Notebooks/paper:
Pros:
Cheap
Easy to use
Hard to change
...
6
votes
3answers
375 views
Are there specific methods for dealing with backlogs?
Backlogs are dreaded things. They accumulate if you let them, on any setting where a list is present, be it one you make yourself (to-do) or things that just pop in to say hi (email).
Not thinking ...
9
votes
3answers
818 views
How to get rid of silly mistakes?
I've always been having some silly mistakes in homeworks/tests/exams etc, as well as programming. I very often seem to be 1-2 silly mistakes away from a perfect score, despite having done a draft and ...
4
votes
1answer
181 views
Inability to function without use of the exocortex
As someone at least passably competent at productivity-enhancing procedures and tools, I've developed an extensive exocortex for information. This information usually enters the input chute from ...
0
votes
1answer
530 views
How to treat people who hate you? [closed]
Mostly you come across people who hate you at your back and some times in front of you too and they keep on irritating you. I was reading 7 Habbits of Highly Efficient People and I came across this ...
2
votes
3answers
409 views
Is there a good virtual desktop manager software for Windows? [closed]
For windows 7, I'm looking for a good Virtual desktop manager so that on just single monitor I can divide my work into multiple screens like on linux. What are the good options that people have used ...
4
votes
3answers
236 views
What is a good site to manage household chores?
For any given relationship with children, there is a lot of household chores that needs to be managed or delegated in some way. One way that I prefer is to maintain a list of tasks that needs to be ...
14
votes
2answers
399 views
How to present my work overload to others
I'm getting overstretched with urgent tasks (writing reports, fixing bugs, etc) that are sapping my time away from non-urgent tasks (visioning, system integration, etc). From my perspective all the ...
2
votes
1answer
457 views
Is there a way of arranging the bookmarks Chrome's bookmark bar more efficiently?
I have too many bookmarks in my Chrome bookmark bar. At the moment I'm using folders to group the bookmarks and now I was wondering: is there a better way to organize the bookmarks?
4
votes
2answers
185 views
Does it help to have dedicated computer workstations for dedicated types of work?
Has anyone seen research that demonstrates dedicating different computers to specific tasks (separated by physical distance) increases productivity?
11
votes
3answers
169 views
Good way to organise product documentation?
When I buy a new item (think computer, fridge, phone) it often comes with a whole stack of paperwork:
Receipt
Warranty
Manuals
Service schedule
Special offers on something else
Other things
...
2
votes
0answers
106 views
Internet Bookmarks [closed]
In Firefox I have on the order of 10^3 bookmarks. I need a tool which provides the following features:
Grouping (tagging / categorization - either is acceptable)
Browser (prefer Firefox) integration ...
9
votes
8answers
735 views
How do you store your writing implements?
I have got a lot of pens and stuff, which I also need, but not only due to my delibarate oversupply of pens, but also the lack of organisational system for them my question is now:
How can I more ...
15
votes
5answers
931 views
Paper vs. digital: both have advantages, but which adv. is more important?
I started wondering recently if paper really could be the way to go. That is, in my everyday, non-GTD-obsessive personal issue tracking and task management. Here's why I'm considering this:
A task ...
11
votes
1answer
168 views
Organizing research-oriented tasks
I am an engineering graduate student and I have always been a 'todo list' person. However, I'm having a difficult time keeping myself organized now, because most of my tasks are research-related. With ...
4
votes
3answers
623 views
How can I finish writing my Thesis as fast as possible, when I don't believe in it anymore?
I am in the situation where i have to write my Diploma Thesis/Documentation for the year and although I've done quite a lot I didn't particularly arrive at where I set out to be at this point. So in a ...
13
votes
11answers
890 views
Dealing with “waiting for reply” emails
When dealing with emails, there are many that I have sent (and so the "action item" is done), but I am waiting for a reply (and want to follow-up if I don't get a reply in a reasonable amount of ...
2
votes
0answers
323 views
Evernote : How do you use it ? [closed]
I am a big fan of Evernote and I use it for a lot of things, from personal stuff, to jobs document, knowledge base, How-to's, vacation planner, etc.
How do you use evernote and, if you are a premium ...
4
votes
3answers
209 views
Handling digital clutter [closed]
We are well aware how physical clutter causes distraction and how we are emotionally tied to it and just cant let it go.
But digital clutter is different beast altogether. I don't know what to do ...
0
votes
0answers
269 views
Which productivity systems are best for which type of people? [closed]
There are several different productivity/organizational systems out there (Getting Things Done, The Pomodoro Technique, etc.). Is each presented as the best technique for everyone to use, or does each ...
29
votes
3answers
553 views
How to avoid night-productivity when it's a must to wake up earlier?
Like many of us, I'm very productive at night. Often I'm reading or working when I should be sleeping, and as a consequence I wake up later in the morning next day. This is a real problem when you ...
