The second one was “via Positiva” – by adding things that organize me and setting up the applications and apps. First one one was using “via Negativa” (or limiting waste to use Lean/Toyota term) – removing things that distracted me. When I was working on something my thoughts have been jumping all around (which might not be that bad in creative persons and endeavors, but sometimes we need to shut it down – read more in The Organized Mind it is again a complementary thing). Having things floating in my head ( things I need to do) just killed my productivity and focus. The key takeaway from the book is to “externalize your memory”. The book that started my recent quest was The Organized Mind (which I highly recommend) that also introduced some practical solutions like Asana.
But with the recent development of apps and Cloud solutions I had to re-visit my “system”. This article is the result of such an effort.Įverything started couple of years back by reading Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits and David Allen’s Getting Things Done (which I haven’t read, but have read other books/articles discussing it, like Zen-to-done).
To be honest, it worked, but I didn’t quite like it. I have been using Evernote (with implemented GTD: Getting Things Done a-la solution The Secret Weapon, that uses smart tagging system) to plan my goals, projects, tasks and general references. Last couple of weeks (or months) I have been trying to read as much as I can on productivity and was trying to re-organize my flow and how I get things done and organized.
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