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I'm looking for a way to track my work and get more organized --- any hints? Here's what I do now

Posted by Will Hunting (aka Joemetz) Feb 5 '13, 10:54

I'm setting up tasks in Outlook --- title is the date started and the title of the email that kick started the task; categorize based on the pertinent trackable data (contract #/project #/program/module)

Create folder for all emails with the same name as the task.

When a task is complete, I move the folder and task to a completed file until the pay period is over when I move them to my archived .pst's.

Anyone have a system that works for them? I am 100% not organized and I desperately need to get so.

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right click on the field headers of the inbox and outbox, field chooser, and select categories. I assign a category to each email (in and out), later - zork Feb 5, 11:14
My sincere advice to you is Siri. It has exponentially boosted my productivity. - David Feb 5, 11:13
I'm terribly unorganized myself, so the only thing I can offer is the simpler the system, the better. - TFox Feb 5, 11:06 3
- the analyst that worked for me, his primary system was keeping a stack of like 100 sheets of paper on it. - TFox Feb 5, 11:08 1
  - (by "it", i mean his desk.) -- nm - TFox Feb 5, 11:09
- yup, my inbox is my to-do list as well. -- nm - znufrii Feb 5, 11:07
Chances are, you aren't ever going to read those emails again. I just transcribe the pertinent bits and attach the email (or file etc) to the task. - con_carne Feb 5, 11:04 2
- I need to track my job hours for each project so breaking things down that way lets me bill roughly in accordance with my time. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 11:11 1
  - oh you definitely want one of those Time Tracker apps that sits on your desktop that lets you use it like a stopwatch -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 11:13
i write things on napkins or scraps of paper if i can even bother to motivate myself to do that -- nm - charlie Feb 5, 10:58 4
- (and I do this as well -- I transcribe my napkins about weekly. it actually super works for me.) -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 11:14
- That was my basic thing; and then I realized with the 2 new systems I'm running that I had a backlog of dozens of items. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 5, 11:00 2
  - serious answer, which may not work for your job/tasks: i just make a master to-do list in Word and keep it open at all times when i'm at the desk - charlie Feb 5, 11:04 1
    - I have checklists everywhere. I have them in excel but I ignore them unless they're on paper. -- nm - amanda Feb 5, 11:12

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