Posts Tagged ‘organizing’

How Your iPod Can Make You More Productive

The iPod is an incredible organizing device! It takes many shelves worth of CDs and condenses them into one tiny gadget, thereby reducing clutter. The iPod (and iTunes) also took away the classic dilemma highlighted in the movie High Fidelity: Should you organize your music collection alphabetically by artist? Or by genre first? Now you can organize it any way you want with a couple of clicks.

Looking at the… » Continue

April 22 2008 | By Lorie | Tagged: collection, distractions, ipod, music, organizing, Productivity | 20 comments»

Organized People are Lazy!

As a Professional Organizer and speaker, I am always joking around with audiences that I am an organized person because I am lazy. I don’t want to do things over again, waste time looking for things, or go out when I don’t need to leave my chair.

Upon analyzing this “laziness,” I have realized there are four main questions organized people are always asking themselves. Here are a… » Continue

February 21 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: organization, organizing, Productivity | 7 comments»

6 Reasons to Keep Receipts…Or Not!

When we work with clients in person to sort out their papers and create systems for them, we always run into the issue of keeping receipts.

For purposes of this article, we’re speaking about personal receipts for managing your household. Businesses should keep all receipts and should definitely use financial management software like QuickBooks or Peachtree to track and report on the information.

Most personal expenses, however, are routine and irrelevant… » Continue

February 8 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: finance, Money, organization, organizing, paper | 6 comments»

Productivity & Organizing Myth #2 – Can’t stop influx

As a new guest author to lifehack.org and an experienced productivity consultant I would like to start by naming and dispelling common productivity and organizing myths. This series will be posted each week until we cover the top 10.

Myth: I cannot stop the email, paper mail, and physical things from coming at me

Reality: You can stop much of the paper mail, email, and ‘stuff’ (items, articles, things) from… » Continue

February 1 2007 | By Susan | Tagged: myth, organizing, Productivity | 3 comments»

Productivity & Organizing Myth #1 – Born Organized

Myth: Some people are born with an organizing gene or are natural organizers and others will never be organized.

Reality: Organized and productive people have a set of skills that lead to… » Continue

January 24 2007 | By Guest | Tagged: myth, organizing, Productivity | 9 comments»

Treepad Personal Information Manager

The Treepad personal information manager is a very flexible, easy to use organizer. Treepad is easily adapted to many different organizational styles so you can make Treepad work the way you want it to.
TreePad is an award-winning Personal Information Manager, Organizer, Database, and Word Processor. Portability and compactness are smoothly blended into TreePad with its other distinctive features: versatility and power, as well as simplicity and intuitiveness of use.
Treepad offers… » Continue

January 17 2007 | By Rob | Tagged: information, organization, organizing, pim, software | 2 comments»

Moleskine Memo Pocket - Wallet & Hipster PDA Case

The Cranking Widgets Blog had an interesting tip on using a Moleskine Memo Pocket. You can use your Moleskine Pocket Memo as a wallet and Hipster PDA carrying case.
I realized that I could probably fit the necessary wallet contents into the two spare pockets of the Moleskine. It fits nicely into my wallet pocket and isn’t really any bigger than my previous wallet. The best part is, I’m now able… » Continue

January 15 2007 | By Rob | Tagged: hipster, hipsterpda, moleskine, organizing | 4 comments»

Visualize Your Commitments

Taking on a new job is a great time to spot-check the power of your organizing and executing systems. Mine came up severely lacking (as evidenced by how few posts I’ve sent to LifeHack recently). But with all things, “That which does not kill us…” Here’s what I’ve learned lately about my organizing needs, and here’s a few tips that might be useful to you, if you’re not already… » Continue

December 4 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: organizing, planning, prioritizing, rememberthemilk, stikkit, thinkature | 1 comment»

My 5 Best Organizing Tricks

I’ve been away from Lifehack for a while, first running an unconference, then attending a conference, and I’ll be away a few days more to attend a funeral. Over these past several days, I’ve needed a way to stay organized, a simple, flexible way to get everything that needed doing handled without much effort, and with as much effectiveness as I could muster. This is all very related to David… » Continue

September 18 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: organizing, planning, podcamp, smallboxes, thinking | 8 comments»

Mail, BrainDump, Mail, Do

I’m trying something new. I haven’t been doing a great job of making the switch between my second life (things I do for myself and for passion) and my day job (that which pays me). When I sit at the desk for my day job, I’m consumed by the million things that need doing for the second life.

I tried doing a brain dump, but that alone wasn’t really working… » Continue

August 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: grasshopperfactory, gtd, organizing, planning, timemanagement | 1 comment»