Having everything placed as they come at hand was long an instinctive behaviour of mine, that’s why my room was always in a total mess, every of my huge cd collection of music,programs and of everything were hard to find out, all of my favourites/bookmarks were arranging by themselves resuming it all : it was a mess because I was never giving it a try to arrange and be organised.
I would tell myself I didn’t have the time to get my hands dirty playing around arranging things or more probably just the sight of the whole mess would put me down to : No I think leaving everything as it is would be alright for me and them. So everytime I would give myself some silly excuses.
But as things end and new things are born again just like the Phoenix, I decided to bury all those excuses and get myself organised : to really breathe around. So this is how my journey of getting organised started and while doing things rightly and orderly : I’m gonna list down the ways I’m doing it and getting organised.
Using a browser that would organise it for me
This is resumed into what is Flock : organising and arranging everything related to my daily web activities :
- Flockr uploads my photos nicely and automatically to my Flickr account and while doing the upload, it allows me to choose my tags, title and various stuffs automatically. This allows my pictures to stay organised on my Flickr box in the quick of a click.
- Using a free favourites service like del.icio.us. del.icio.us, owned by Yahoo! allows you to tag that link you just stumbled upon and place it somewhere there on an account you’ve created with them so that you have an organised directory of your precious links you don’t want to lose. So now Flock comes with a cute handy star button that when you click allows you to bookmark that page you’re currently on onto your del.icio.us account(you would initially have to setup that del.icio.us account and configure it with Flock). So now every of my favourites/bookmarks are staying freely organised on del.icio.us by a click of a Flock’s star.
- Getting notes clearly organised is not something easily done on a Win box but Flock sits as my nice browser that allows me just to do that so easily through a nice little shelf situated at the bottom where I can drag into anything that comes to my mind : notes, some lines I’ve stumbled on a page which might need some consideration later or any stuff that fits in a scribbling fashion
- Flock delivers my daily news right at my doorstep and helps me to stay organised and tuned up with the freshest and latest news travelling the web. It features a one click button that opens an information highway into my sidebar getting me to organise(place my feeds into different categories/folders) and view my RSSed blogs I’ve subscribed to. I consult those interesting, save ones that need future look into and all this helps me to stay organised.
Download Flock : organise the web and then surf
using a folder like Bryan would do
A very nice and cool behaviour I’m getting to develop : dive any of those paper stuffs into folders and keep them nicely organised. But why just stock paper stuffs in a folder, Bryan says that getting your next-to-do things nicely into a paper folder would also allow you to stay alert and organised with things you would do.
using iTunes as my music player
I was long a Windows Media Player guy and with the version 10 I had, I was able to rip my music from my audio CD’s directly into mp3. But I was never quite satisfied in how it arranged everything and played my musical tunes. So skipping the details, I said why not try iTunes, the audio player any mac geek should be having. iTunes does too great well with your music by arranging them and organising everything into nicely packed playlists some which are even automatically generated based on different criteria. iTunes also features a podcast catcher allowing you to splash into a podcast channel directly on iTunes which will automatically stream and play it. I can’t rightly assure you with those small amounts of words above but with the great joy of having everything of my musicbox organised : use iTunes as your music player and stay organised
Download iTunes : organise and play your music peacefully!
other things that might help out, would they?
- Ta-da-lists allows you to have a nice to-do-list on the web that anyone can see. Good for things required on groupwork.
- 18 ways to Stay Focused/Organised at work
- Mind-map your thoughts
some of my tricks, but how about you?
The list above is not about everything I’m doing to stay organised but only some of the most important ones that help doing it so easily. But how about you, do you have any tricks you use to stay organise, is it mentally that everything goes on or is it through various clearly laid out steps you’ve sticked to, things you do to stay ORGANISED. Would you tell me?
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To stay organised, I follow the techniques described in David Allen’s Get Things Done.
I almost fell for the Mac OS X look although I was thinking that you are not a Mac user. Then, it hit me: the window control icons are on the wrong side and the menu bar looked odd. A very good look-alike nonetheless
@ eddy young: yo dude, you read books like this? my father just devours them that’s why I think I’ll never lay my hands onto them one day.
Some techniques you’ve got that you might want to share with us?
As for the look you got it too right, I’m on a Windoz box skinning a mac suit. Rebooting our XP suit has everything you need to feel like on a mac. A quick look won’t waste your time, check??
@Hans:
Yes, I’ve been in personal development literature since my secondary school years. I have always striven to optmise my life, however remote the chances of succeeding are.
Even before reading Getting Things Done, I used some of the techniques described in it. For example, I used to write a to-do list as my first action in the office every morning. Then, throughout the day, I would tick off completed task. The next morning, I will carry over any uncompleted tasks and repeat the process.
I find that it keeps me focused on what I have to do, although I have to admit that right now — in my notice period — I am foregoing discipline
Eddy
@ eddy: thanks very much eddy for bringing down your insights up to here.
Yeah I think that’s the way, sticking to those techniques until they become innate, part of yourself.
If you don’t even try to do them, nothing will really change. I admit that if I was sticking to my old manners without applying some few techniques to get all things done, things would still be the mess it was unlike now, a bit cleaner and organised I think.
This gets to free your minds and your time also. If we didn’t do this, getting organised, I think we would be losing a lot of time. Take your tasks for example, trying to remember them sometimes leaves some umcompleted tasks behind and this can further affects future activities : time is money.
But you know the way we would do it is the question that intrigues me? How? For you it’s writing them down? Would this work for me? I think that this depends on the person the environment he gets to live. I think for office, that would be ok? but how about someone moving around : does putting reminders in his phone gets him the trick(I used to do that, infact I still do that). Now I’ve ported those same techniques while I get to browse, I’ve found Flock that allows me to scribble down my thoughts.
Do you think that the techniques will vary according to where we are. You’re to-do-list is for office work, but how about at home, about getting organised while you surf, getting organised while moving around : do you think we should apply it to more bits and bytes of our life?
One good thing about the Getting Things Done techniques is that they can be applied using either pen and paper, or a computer. I use a simple text file to keep track of my tasks. It looks something like this:
As for addressing the issue of where to keep my list, I realised that wherever I spend most of my time is the best place for that. So, my list stays at work. If there is anything that I need done at home, I take a note home. Alternatively, you could keep this on USB storage, your mobile phone, or on the Internet. Also bear in mind that priorities are not set as Getting Things Done state that the priority of a task is decided on the spot when it comes time to address it.
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And, there I messed up again
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@ eddy: yo dude, don’t worry about the mess, it’s about getting your idea flow in down to here, you did that so we’ll leave about the mess
and this gets to flow in something that tickles me : yeah you raised another point, it’s about bringing it with you. I think that mobile and those gadgetry co are all too much aware of it that’s why they are integrating every bits of things in those gadgets. (mp3+USB drive)
Be it reminders, to-do things, tv, music it’s all getting compacted into our sweet mobile. I think I’ll be buying myself a new one probably that will have those things showing first up.
For my taste I think a Sony Eriksson K700i will do the job with the great cam it has. I think I’ll pop up a post soon to have the blogosphere’s advice.
thanks again dude for getting your ideas into here.
@ lash: hey dude that’s great pleasure as always to see you here.
yeah about the where things should be, sorry for that, you know since BlogoSquare was born, I’ve been constantly modding things here to show up to my taste, I think that now and now everything is showing up to my taste. Nice you finally found that comment box and placed that precious comment of yours.
thanks for the encouragement, it’s always welcomed. hope now to see you more often in here and thanks also for making the way up to here.
@ eddy: yo dude check the link above : 18 ways to stay focused/organised at work, sure this might interest ya
@ everyone :
I’ve just updated the article above with a link that just need figuring there : check it out the 18 ways to stay …..
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