4. Organizing reminders and information in the most streamlined way, in appropriate categories, based on how and when you need to access them
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6. My set up of Spring Pad - notebooks 4. Create a notebook called “Waiting for” 5. Create notebooks for all your different “projects” 6. Create categories where you actuality can do your “tasks”
14. Interesting music I hear on the radio and want to listen on SpotifyI EMPTYmy Springpad inbox EVERY day and organize it among my projects, waiting for or maybe notebooks.
15. My set up of Spring Pad – Next Actions My “Next Action” notebook is a collection of all next actions I need to do that are part of my projects. So all actionable tasks that take longer than 2 minutes and can’t be delegated. I create a task list in the related project notebook and make sure that this task is also visible in the next action notebook as well. The next action notebook is my most viewed notebook and I look at it at least two times a day, in the morning and in the evening during my daily review. As soon as a task is done, I will deselect “Next Actions” as notebook so that it is out of the “Next Actions” notebook. This will keep this notebook clean and up to date
16. My set up of Spring Pad – Next Actions Example regarding the task of creating this presentation: Description is an action. Like for example, write, call etc. Places where I can do the actual execution of this task as category in this case : @computer Task / action is in both my notebook “Blog” and “Next Action” Unfortunately it it not yet possible to order your notebook task based on categories. Hope Springpad will make this available in one of their upcoming releases. This will make it very easy to group your “Next Actions” tasks.
26. Books and CD’s that people borrowed from meI review my “Waiting for” notebook once a week to see if my delegated tasks are in line with my expectations.
33. Blog – all ideas that I capture + research for new blog posts
34. Many more!I review my “Project” notebooks once a Day to see if my next action is actionable for each task and if yes add them also to the “Next Actions” notebook.
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36. @Home – all tasks that can be done in and around the house
37. @Internet – all task where I need to use the internet for
40. @Work – all tasks that only can be done at work It would be great if Springpad can create a functionality so that we can create sub categories, so that a task can be in @computer and in @work for example.
47. Got an alertAdd Idea into my Springpad “Inbox”. Write the actual blog and when finished remove the task from “Next Actions” and mark the task as done. Celebrate that you get things done! 3 7 2 8pm – empty my daily “inbox”. 8 Publish the blog
48. Couple of more tips Connect your Google calendar and Gmail with your Springpad – it will create an extra calendar in your Google calendar called “springpad” and can synchronize all your events – very powerful! Connect your flikr account with your Springpad to easy upload and use images Connect your Twitter account to get reminders and updates via your twitter account Follow more Springpad users, share ideas and get inspired! Make a couple of tasks, check list public to share ideas and thoughts – “if you will give, you will get” Set alerts as reminders Flag important tasks that needs more attention Use tags to find your stuff more easily Due to the great synchronization function you can use online, iPhone, Android and iPad so that you always have access to your latest updated information and can collect your ideas directly into Springpad. Do daily, weekly and monthly reviews! – “Next Actions” and “Inbox” need to be reviewed DAILY
49. More information For more information visit my site : http://marcel.chaudron.com Follow me on Springpad : http://springpadit.com/Chaudron Follow me on twitter : @chaudron Image sources: Background image on slide 5 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/kogakure/153741685/ Background image on slide 8 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/cubagallery/4466636070/ Background image onslide 9 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/toshio1/3371395046/ Background image onslide 10 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/mazakar/5127545799/ Background image onslide 11 : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonyshi/2990107950/