Stay organized with Google Notebook Sep28 '06

With Google Notebook, I create To-Do lists, and organize my lists based on priority and relevance.

For my day-job, I currently have about a half-dozen Notebooks that allow me to organize my priorities:

Main To-Do are all immediate tasks that need attention right away. If I don’t see myself addressing a certain task right away, it stays off the Main To-Do list.

Completed are all tasks that have been resolved.

Pending are tasks that either need more clarification, information, or approval to do.

Backburner are tasks that simply do not "have wings," at the current time.

It would be nice if... are tasks that are possible "inconveniences," but not necessarily problems. Where as they are worthy suggestions - they just don’t hold enough relevance (yet) to dedicate full man-hours on.

Cancelled for now are tasks that lost their initial direction, but may re-gain that direction in the future.

On-going are tasks that are repeated frequently.

Within each Notebook above, I also have sub-sections that provide further organization. For example, in Main To-Do, I have sub-sections for Main and Recently Prompted.

Main is all of the immediate tasks that I need to complete within a short time frame, such as the immediate day. If I don’t see myself getting to a certain item that day, it goes off the "Main" section.

Recently Prompted are items that come out of the blue, that may need immediate attention, but not always. For example, if you’re working on a certain task for a number of hours, and someone suddenly calls you to explain a different problem, that "sudden request" goes under "Recently Prompted." You can think of it as "recently prompted for your attention." Later on, those tasks might get moved to another category, as their relevance starts to come together.

I find Google Notebook allows maximum organization and productivity.

Categories: Google , Organization

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