Life, Work, Tools: Lisa Hazen, Writer, Editor

What is your tool—the one that helps you 
do the things you do?

Notebook

How has this tool helped you?

Most of my go-to tools are electronic—my iPhone, my laptop, my time-tracking apps (Harvest!) and QuickBooks. But the one thing that I absolutely cannot live without is totally analog. It’s a simple lined notebook where I track pending projects.

This humble journal serves a variety of immediate purposes—helping me see at a glance what awaits me each day, providing a constant reminder within e...