Project & Task Management

Mastering Your To-Do List (Or: Why Half-Assing It Will Sink Your Writing Career)

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A half-used task manager is worse than none at all. It lulls you into thinking you’re organized while your real workload smolders quietly in the background. As indie authors, we can’t afford that. There are just too many moving parts. The right system—used properly—turns chaos into calm, lets you stop reacting to fires, and helps you finally make space for the deep, strategic work that actually grows your career. Like, you know…writing.

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If Your To-Do List Stresses You Out, You’re Doing It Wrong

/ PRODUCTIVITY & ORGANIZATION, Project & Task Management / 3 minutes of reading / 2 Comments

Most writers think they’re breaking down their tasks—but if you’re still staring at “Revise novel” on your to-do list and feeling stuck, you’ve got a project, not a task. Here’s how to break your work down into do-able chunks that actually get done.

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A Henry Ford Efficiency You Can Use to Save Time

/ Project & Task Management, Work Processes / 6 minutes of reading

One of my very first jobs, after I left high school, was data entry.  Thirty of us would punch in numbers from thousands of sheets of engineering reports that had been collected for a month, from across the state. Granted, these days, those same engineers would be punching in their own data on a mobile

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Why You Should Pick Your Priorities

/ Discipline & Motivation, Habits, Project & Task Management / 4 minutes of reading

Why You Should Pick Your Priorities …and Stick With Them. Farnam Street have a post in their archives, “Understanding Our Need for Novelty and Change” that is worth a slow read through. Seeking out novelty and noticing change was a survival instinct that doesn’t serve us in modern times, because everything is new and novel

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I Used Notion For A Week. 8 Reasons I Switched Back To OneNote

/ Notetaking, PRODUCTIVITY & ORGANIZATION, Project & Task Management / 6 minutes of reading

I Used Notion For A Week. 8 Reasons I Switched Back To OneNote Do you want a multitool or a notebook? If you’re shopping for a new notebook app, read on. You might find this breakdown illuminating, for this covers the nitty-gritty of using both Notion and OneNote (Desktop 2016 version). Notebooks are essential tools

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