Elisa Camahort, who I interviewed last weekend about the impact of blogging on business, is back again with her favorite three ways to stay on top of her work. She says, "I find I can never be too busy," and with habits like these, she's super productive.
Elisa, what are your three top personal productivity habits, techniques and/or tools?
- As a blogger with 9 blogs to which I contribute I actually schedule blogging as a recurring task in my PDA/desktop application. I mean a separate recurring task per blog, each with its own particular schedule of posting frequency. I then keep track of my actual blog posts in a spreadsheet. Some days I may decide to cancel that day's reminder. And sometimes i may blog more often than the reminders indicate...but these recurring tasks keep me ever-conscious of my blogging obligations.
- This may seem like a weird one, but I actually take all notes at meetings, conferences, conference calls, in a notebook. I have one notebook for BlogHer and one for everything else. Marking some sentences with an AI for Action item as I go. I then review my notes and extract those AIs or anything else of note and transfer them into my PDA as appropriate (calendar, To-Do etc.) I believe that taking notes long-hand lets me focus more on what's being said than on my typing, which is really not that good. I also believe writing by hand makes it easier for me to commit things to memory.
- I use email filtering as much as possible, particularly for internal BlogHer emails. My BlogHer partners Lisa Stone, Jory Des Jardins and I keep each other completely plugged in to everything we each are doing, but that also leads to a LOT of emails between us. By using headers such as Action, Review and FYI along with our initials, I can keep those items which need my timely attention separate from those items on which I can catch up at the end of the day. That's a tremendous help.
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