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Simple Time Management Tools Are Best

Posted August 15, 2007 in Productivity 5 Comments »

Over the years I’ve come into contact with various and sundry time management tools. I used the Covey system, a host of day timers, and even tried inventing my own tools. I finally gave up on time management because I didn’t want to put my life in a box. I figured if I ran out of time to do all the things I wanted to do on a certain day then I’d just pick up again the next day. I finally just started making lists and scratching the items off the list as I completed them. That proved to be the most effective time management tool I’d ever encountered.

Then I started an Internet business.

Internet Sidekick

I don’t do much on paper any more. It’s all digital. So I struggled with ways to manage my time online. I have struggled with time management tools because I have found that they usually end up taking up time themselves – updating, planning, rearranging, etc. The time I took to stay organized took up more time than it was worth. I could get more done just by doing it. All I needed was a list.

I didn’t know digital time management tools could be useful. I’ve used Outlook’s calendar feature, but I don’t like it. I needed a list, a list I couldn’t put on paper. Enter Sidekick.

Sidekick is an old software program. They quit making. It’s not even available any more. But it’s a wonderful tool. So simple and it does everything I need it to do. No bells and whistles. It’s like a list on my desktop. And all I have to do is gone down the list and scratch things off when I finish them. Sometimes, simplicity is best.

The Old Man

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The Old Man is the operations manager for SEO Service Provider. If you want a copy of Sidekick just let him know. He’ll be happy to e-mail you a copy.


About the author: Allen Taylor is the operations manager for Blog Content Provider. He works from home managing blogs on behalf of NameCritic and owns Articles.pn, the article directory with social networking benefits.


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    Shane
    August 15th, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    That’s hilarious! I know someone who’s been using sidekick since he was in Law School. It was Sidekick for DOS … he absolutely swears by it.

    Me, I’ll stick with my pen and pad of lined paper. They keep running even if the lights go out.

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    Matt
    August 15th, 2007 at 7:07 pm

    iGTD for Mac works pretty great for that. It basically allows you to put different task lists together (client contact, specific job tasks, etc). Slick – but perhaps a notch or two too “robust” for some :)

    http://bargiel.home.pl/iGTD/

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    Jon - Freelance Folder
    August 16th, 2007 at 2:26 am

    Shane, hehe good point there, you can still check things on your to-do list even in case of a power outage.

    But I’m a big fan of putting stuff in softwares and analyze stuff, I’ll probably try iGTD that Matt (thanx Matt!) linked to, looks interesting (and I’m a hardcore Mac user so)

    ;)

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    Daniel
    August 16th, 2007 at 3:38 am

    Hi, I’m moving to the same direction. I can only suggest one more simple tool AcePlanner (http://aceplanner.com).

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    Old Man
    August 16th, 2007 at 9:42 am

    Thanks for sharing your resources!

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