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Are You Overwhelmed With Everything You Need to Track?

December 14, 2006 by Ben Yoskovitz

We all lead crazy lives. If we could magically add an hour to the day, most of us would add two just so we could get a little more done.

And if you’re like me you work from several places – an office, at home, in the bathroom, while driving, while sleeping…

The more projects I add to my existing schedule the more notes I’m taking. The more notes I take, the more I think about a more effective system of note-taking. I’m fairly effective when it comes to maintaining a lean, mean, fighting to-do list, but it’s all the other little scraps of notes that are getting to me:

  • reminders
  • ideas / brainstorms
  • websites to visit later
  • passwords
  • contacts
  • etc.

And let’s not forget my favorite: those weird, kooky messages I write myself before falling asleep that are impossible to interpret the next morning.

So now I’m left wondering…How SHOULD I track all this stuff?

I know there are software applications to handle to-dos…maybe that’s the answer. There are note-taking tools, and you can use neat little applications to let you mark-up web pages/add sticky notes to them as reminders, etc. I’m not so sure it’s even about which tool to use, as much as it’s about building a system for myself that works.

It’s not a question of falling behind or even about things falling through the cracks (at least not yet!) It’s about consolidating everything that’s going on into one system/structure and place that I can use effectively and brainlessly (the system has to be so easy that I’ll stick with it.)

Help!

How do you keep track of E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G? Is it even possible?

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Ben Yoskovitz

Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and VC firm that works with large, ambitious companies to identify new areas of opportunity through internal and external innovation.

Previously I was VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (acq. $CRM), and Founding Partner at Year One Labs.

Angel investments include: Breather, Spoiler Alert, SendWithUs and others.

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