Scheduling, planning and follow-through. Some questions

Posted by Franz Grieser
May 17, 2014 at 10:07 PM

My 2 cents:

It’s not a matter of tools (don’t stone me for saying that).
The gazillion of tools I have tried are great at organizing urgent and important things. What they are not really good at is organizing tasks and projects that are important on the long run.

What I ended up with (still not perfect):
A spreadsheet containing all my todos (off course, you can do that on paper). It has with several colums for my various jobs (I work as a freelancer for several customers and for my own businesses) plus a column for private things plus a column for long-term projects. Every day I try to get a number of urgent/short-term tasks done for my paid jobs plus 2 or so private tasks plus at least one step for one of my long-term projects. Sometimes the urgent jobs take up the entire day, sometimes even for a week. I try to find a balance between urgent, short-term and important long-term tasks/projects. But that’s something I have to do “manually”. I haven’t found a piece of software or a collection of tools to really do the job. And I don’t think there is some software for that.