In recent years, Microsoft has pivoted towards providing office-as-a-service applications. Most if these can be easily incorporated into your personal workflow. Having everything online makes it easier to be productive, without losing your mobility.
You find it difficult to remember what you want to achieve, and are distraught by the amount of tasks you have yet to finish.
What is this? These describe factors at play that influence the outcome of the practice. They are not necessarily good or bad, but they are important to be aware of. Some contextual forces are enablers, giving the practice a higher chance of being useful. Others are deterrents, making the practice less useful in your given context.
The following factors support effective application of the practice:
The following factors prevent effective application of the practice:
Use a personalized productivity flow, using whatever tool (or combination of tools) you feel comfortable with. Make sure your chosen toolset is readily available, and trustworthy. For some, this will be a pen-and-paper system. Others prefer to leverage their digital prowess and lifestyle to have their productivity tool available to them constantly2.
Whichever tools you choose, make sure you:
One of the most popular personal productivity methods is called the “Getting things done” method3. The core ideas of the GTD approach is to have:
In recent years, Microsoft has pivoted towards providing office-as-a-service applications. Most if these can be easily incorporated into your personal workflow. Having everything online makes it easier to be productive, without losing your mobility.
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An “open loop” is any task, idea, or though that keeps you occupied. You have not yet taken action on it, and as such were not able to come to a satisfying conclusion. In short: thoughts that live in your mind, for which you were not yet able to find closure. ↩︎
Unless of course your computers die and your internet connection goes on hiatus ↩︎
From the book ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change’ by Stephen R. Covey ↩︎