Overcoming Overload?

Posted by Ken
Mar 10, 2015 at 11:21 PM

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Hi Ken and other Outliners
>
>What you describe is typical overload situations.
> >The way I tackle this is two-fold:
> >1- Long term, complex tasks are entered in an organize fashion, in an
>outliner (Ecco is a good tool, I now use my own InfoQube of course, but
>in the same Ecco spirit)
>2- Short requests, small tasks, especially if not related to the “big”
>picture go in a flat list, unordered. Quick to enter, quick to mark as
>done and move on. Marking it as done simply implies adding a done date.
>This help me remember what I’ve done, come reporting time.

Hi PPL,

This is a bit of what I was trying, with paper being my unrecorded flat list. I am glad to hear that even an information software designer uses an unrecorded flat list when necessary.

—Ken