How many to-do lists are you willing to manage simultaneously? If you’re sane, the answer will be a resounding ‘ONE!’. With a phone containing apps for every major todo list, it’s easy to flit around and be disorganized but it also helps me figure out what a task management systems should and shouldn’t do because there are plenty I left behind on my journey. I like to try as many apps as I can, and it’s even part of my job to review them. I’ve experimented with dozens of different apps including Trello, Process Street, Any.Do, Wunderlist, Todoist, Evernote, Asana, Inbox, iOS Reminders and more. These are apps which lend themselves to different kinds of use and level of detail - like how Trello has room for everything but Any.Do is just a to-do list. The problems I have with task managementīecause I have to collaborate with multiple people, I end up collaborating over different apps depending on who I’m collaborating with. Let me try and get my ideas straight long enough to tell you. How did someone who couldn’t settle on any single app manage to develop a proper task management system?

With 2 hours to overhaul my task management system and 1 week to test it out, I’d like to share what I found so you too can get things done, hit deadlines and stop accidentally slacking off. The latter requirement was the hardest to meet, and a lot of apps I tried disorganized me further or consumed more time than they saved. įor someone like me (e.g: messing around on apps constantly), a solution for task management should be elegant, enjoyable and more productive than if it weren’t to be used at all. Now that I’m on a salary and tackling several projects at once whilst learning what marketing even is, I’ve given in to the unromantic world of being organized and set out to get myself in line and boost productivity. I’ve always been able to get away with my own brand of task management, spurred on by the idea that I won’t get paid until the article is written. Especially since I’ve been writing for money for the past 4 years - which means managing projects, tasks, and keeping well organized - and my task management skills haven’t really improved. I realized pretty quickly that my task management system made no sense at all.Įmbarrassing. With just my phone, I wanted to do something worthwhile so I decided to organize my tasks properly - something I hadn’t done in a while. Last weekend I found myself in a cafe, alone and without a laptop for around 2 hours. This week’s post is a guest article by Ben Brandall, a writer for Process Street.

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