Todoist also helps streamline your life by integrating with so many other programs that I use every day, such as Dropbox, Slack, and Amazon Alexa/Echo. You can also share tasks with colleagues and friends, and stay organized by creating specific categories for tasks, such as “social strategy” or “kitchen renovation.” You might think of it like the personal version of project management tool Asana. Todoist is an app that lets you quickly and easily make tasks, add deadlines to hold yourself accountable, and check off items as you complete them. There are loads of more advanced Trello features we aren’t using yet so we can get by on the free plan, but so far it’s meant that the things we want to do are happening more often-and with less hectic last-minute rush.To help you get started, here are suggestions from my community for the best tech based on the areas you want to simplify. We can then add comments, share links, and generally just plan things properly. There’s one for those agility lessons, another for my course, and a third for that spa weekend away. We have columns set up for different household tasks, the dogs, ourselves, trips we’re planning to take, and other stuff that’s relevant to our lives.Įach task, plan, or potential whatever gets a card in the appropriate column. If you’re not familiar with Trello, it’s basically a digital white board with everything sorted into columns that you can configure however you need. Trello is a great way to keep track of lots of different moving pieces. Once or twice a week we’d have a conversation about one of these things, but we’d never actually take action. The problem was we never really managed to sort the things we wanted to do, like agility lessons for the dogs, a film photography course I was interested in, or having a spa day.

Even before the productivity overhaul, it wasn’t that hard to keep on top of the urgent fires-the dogs got fed, my work (mostly) got done, we didn’t go too many days without showering.

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