Tips & Tricks Tuesday: A thorough setup for flexible and handy organization

Happy New Year! As you get organized for 2025, it can be a good time to review your tasks, lists, and organization setup.

We really love this very thorough setup that covers a lot of bases, both in terms of organizing things you want to keep track of, and helping to surface them as needed.

So grab a coffee or your favorite beverage, cozy up, and here’s to an organized year!

I thought I’d share my current setup using RTM, which is a conglomeration of various productivity methods I’ve read and digested over the past few years. I definitely think that whilst GTD has its place, I often found myself trying to manage my system too much and not actually getting things done.

The thing that made me adapt my workflow was reading Eat That Frog by Brian Tracy, as it highlighted the fact I wasn’t getting the big jobs that I needed to do done and instead spent days hoovering up the smaller tasks instead of tackling the big ones.

The book explains that the things that will move you forward the most (Frogs) are the things you tend to procrastinate on the longest, and these should be the things you tackle first. If you have a list of frogs, and a list of other smaller menial tasks, the biggest frog should be the first thing you tackle that day until it’s eaten up, then move onto the smaller tasks.

It made perfect sense to me, really, but took quite a large change in my own self discipline; however, I feel it’s made me more productive. So here goes, pour yourself a coffee as this could be quite a long one.

Read the full forum post to find out all the details.

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