guide:organisation

Organise yourself!

Many people struggle with their daily tasks. Often it's hard to begin doing something or even know what to do. Organising yourself helps with that. You can use to do lists, calendars or project management solutions to manage your private and work life. And you can save your knowledge somewhere so you don't frequently forget what you once have known.

You can simply make a list of things you have to do. This will become a long list very soon and will start to annoy you.

There are several tools and techniques which might help you:

The Eisenhower Matrix – use four quadrants to categorise your tasks into priority and urgency.

urgent not urgent
important done immediately and personally
e.g. crises, deadlines, problems.
have end date and are done personally
e.g. relationships, planning, recreation.
unimportant delegate
e.g. interruptions, meetings, activities.
drop this
e.g. time wasters, pleasant activities, trivia.
  • Getting Things Done
  • Pomodoro

Kanban is basically "to do lists on steroids". You create multiple lists horizontally adjacent to each other to categorise entries.

  • Wekan – FOSS clone of Trello
  • Kanboard – Kanban software with plugins and automations written in PHP
  • Trello – paid and powerful
  • View Your Mind (vym) – mind mapping tool
  • Joplin – note taking application with Markdown
  • Zim Desktop Wiki
  • Obsidian – Markdown note taking application with many plugins.
  • LogseqFOSS Markdown editor with a graph.
  • Bugzilla
  • Jira
  • Last modified: 2022-10-16 00:57