![]() That’s just easily obvious because of prior experience. And I know that the way this will work for me is in software. The aim is to get back on top of everything and to be creating new work, producing material, instead of losing most of my time to managing it all. So I’m taking steps.Īnd this has become a kind of live blog as I try to get a handle on it all. I would prefer to know.)īut right or wrong, it is how I am working and today that isn’t working. (Unless you really do think I’m wrong and you can tell me. ![]() If you’re looking at me now thinking you’re not so sure, the strongest chance is that I have failed to convey to you why I think this. I have zero question about this, absolute zero doubt. Put the flexible start date in your To Do list, if you must, put the deadline in there too and then everything to do with that task is in one place. But do you then put a date on there that you’ll start the job too? Odds are, you won’t start it then. ![]() If something has to be delivered on Tuesday, you could put that on the calendar, fine. I vehemently refuse to join up my tasks and my calendar: To Dos do not belong on certain dates. Now I tend to run more talks and workshops – I did ten sessions in March – so my calendar is more important than it was. It wasn’t event-based: I didn’t have a lot of meetings, for instance. Previously I was almost completely task-focused: I had this enormous list of things to do. This is happening to me more often now and part of it is how I think my business is in a bit of a transition. But somehow even though I want to go to this, and I will go to it, for some reason it wasn’t on my mental map of the week. So when I say I nearly missed it, it’s not like I spilt my tea and had to run for the car. It’s one that was rearranged to this afternoon, okay? And I caught it when I checked my calendar at 5am this morning. I am compelled to make an excuse about the event, at least. Tagged iThoughts, mind map, mind mapping, MindNode, saleĪnd I have fallen behind on a project I am very keen to do. ![]() Take a look at iThoughts on sale on the App Store. The visual mess becomes the organised visual mess becomes the text list in my OmniFocus. You reach the point where your initial mess becomes rather structured – and with both MindNode and this briefly-on-sale iThoughts you can then shove the map off to your To Do list. Then drag two things that seem like they should be together. Mind mapping software lets you – forgive me – just vomit up everything you can think of. Actually, you’re having a hard time getting all this stuff down because there’s so much and oh, yes, if I do that, I could do this, and then there’s that. You have this mass of ideas and you don’t know how or whether they fit together. I’m more of a text guy than a visual thinker, though that varies and I’ve found directing is like writing in 3D, but I’ve found mind maps useful for starting projects. I have one – MindNode – and the other is iThoughts, which is now briefly on sale. It looks to me as if there are really two contenders in mindmaps for iPad. ![]()
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