Productive Desktop

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Minimalist Desk

Productivity must be in tune with the environment and the work tools. In the knowledge era, the desktop plays a determinant role in the worker productivity.

Manage effectively your tasks with “Optimized Tasks List” v1.5

Optimized Tasks List v1.5

“Optimized Tasks List” is a powerful tool that will help you organize and manage your lists of tasks quickly, easily and efficiently. This tool is free and no need to pay for licenses for its use.

Picture of context

Picture of Context

The picture of context is a simple and useful tool to analyze, evaluate and define every situation, problem or project, helping to define strategies and to decision-making. Its application is universal in any field, from the personal to the professional, and as tool for coaching and Autocoaching (especially in the first session) is invaluable.

Manage effectively your tasks list with this free Excel

Excel “Optimized Tasks List”

Now you can download for free the Excel “Optimized Tasks List”, which allows you to manage quickly, easily and efficiently your tasks lists.

20 essential tools to improve the productivity

Whatever your method of organization, there is a tool to get the most out of your work and be more productive. The following are a collection of tools, with a personal and impartial assessment about the best I’ve found throughout my career, and based on my experience. My advice is to try them yourself in order to decide which one best suits your way of working, regardless of the score with which I described the tool.

I rated the tools in different functional categories:

• Notes: Notes management.
• ToDo: To do list.
• Advanced ToDo: Advanced to do list.
• Kanban: Kanban dashboards, in which the tasks change their workflow or status.

Take care of your tools to be more productive

The tools are similar to our hands to work. The health of our tools is intimately linked to the health of our productivity and our work.

Original image of Doug Powel, extracted from Stockvault: http://www.stockvault.net/photo/108522/grampas-workshop

 

Creativity and ideas without limits with Mural.ly

Sometimes arise original tools, creative, simple and useful, to help us develop our ideas and creativity. Mural.ly it is a good example, allowing us to quickly create murals for our brainstorming, without the restrictions of a mind map hierarchy, with the particularity of presenting with zoom animations (similar to Prezi), and best all, in a 100% web and collaborative.

Tasks management with kanban2go

Tasks List

In any system of organizing tasks, the tasks list is the key tool to work everyday. This list is generated by the tasks review, which establishes which tasks will be added to the list, their priorities and their commitments (due date).

The tasks list is not only a work plan, but also the most alive factor of the organizational system, because it must reflect the current status work at every moment. The nature of this list is very dynamic, so it must be updated constantly, due to the completion of tasks, changes or unforeseen, such as the incorporation of urgent tasks, change of priorities, work stoppage by dependencies or by risks not covered, etc.

Personal organization using GTD and Workflowy

Workflowy is a very useful little wonder, that allows you to do many things with very few concepts, and, best of all, it is very easy. Its original concept is the organization of ideas, similar to a mental map, but instead of a graphical tool lines and balloons, use the system well-known hierarchy, organizing the notes by groups, levels or indentations, depending on the depth of each concept from the more generic (first level) to the most detailed (last level).