Organization: Where Do I Start?

Recently I pulled together some key ideas to use when getting organized into a post, “Organization: Useful Principles,” and I promised to follow up with links to organization posts on this site and with a book recommendation.

I’ll start with the book recommendation, which is David Allen’s Getting Things Done. Allen offers an extremely well-designed approach to organizing task lists and taking care of items on that list: you can get more information on his book in my post “Useful Book: Getting Things Done.”

As to articles on this site, here are some that I hope you might find especially useful:

Task organization

Don’t Use Your Inbox as a To Do List

Weed Out Task Lists With the 2-Minute Rule

My Top 1 Task

Why Tasks Lists Sometimes Fail  

Attitude and emotions

Effective Organization and Filing Are … Fun???

Relieving Stress by Understanding Your Inputs

4 Ways to Make Sure You Get a Task Done  

Organizing papers

Why bother organizing papers?

The Eight Things You Can Do With a Piece of Paper  

Decluttering

Digging Out, Cleaning Up, Uncluttering, and Getting Organized: Let’s Start With a Link

What Our Garage Sale Taught Me About Decluttering My Mind

Some Tips for Getting Rid of Things

E-mail

How I’m Keeping My E-mail Inbox Empty

Free Online E-mail to Help You Keep a Clean Inbox

My Empty E-mail Inbox, 10 Weeks Later  

General principles

Organization: Useful Principles

How Exceptions Cripple Organization

Why Organization Improves Motivation, and Some Organization Tips

Little by Little or Big Push?

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