Collecting data for my clue

[eiriktheyounger]

Ok folks here is the question of the day.
How do you deal with task and time managment, work and personal?
Are you paper based? if so whose system or do you use your own?
Are you electronic? if so what software or combo of systems do you use?

Comments

[predigested]

Paper-based is bad. I collect my receipts only until I enter them into an Excel ledger, then I dump them into a folder and forget about them.

All long lists of things must be put into ledgers. I use Excel for everything I possibly can.

I am also mind-based. I know how to estimate appointment times and travel times very quickly, and my scheduling builds on those. While my inventory is in a ledger, I also have it duped in my brain, so I typically know to reorder parts as I 'use the last one'.

Also, I get much relief from automating daily tasks that I can identify as taking up lots of time. Example: Copying and pasting customer information into a blank invoice form before printing it out -- too much clicking and keyboarding. Built a Mail Merge that takes a Contact from Outlook and throws it into a Word template. Fewer clicks, fewer window-toggles, fewer things to think about.

Lastly: Reminders in Outlook for monthly tasks (like paying taxes) are really nice.

[sungo]

I'm a mix. The wife and I share a goggle calendar which we both "sync" into our paper planners. I use moleskine notebooks and planners for the rest. I have notebooks with my todo lists going back to my first few months at AOL :)

[hotfix]

Work is Outlook calendar.
Personal is Heather. Seriously.