![]() ![]() My “work” Workspace (“ PD - Today”, shown in the image above) contains all Drafts with a specific date (today’s date) and with a specific tag (“pd”). For the purpose of this post I am focusing entirely on how I use Drafts for managing my Work tasks. I have a Workspace that shows me all tasks (personal and work) due on the current date, and also two separate Workspaces for Personal and Work tasks. #RI PUBLIC PORTAL SMART SEARCH ARCHIVE#If a task is the only content in a Draft I’ll just archive the Draft to mark it as complete. If anything is put into Drafts without a tag then that draft will appear in the “Processing” workspace where I can tag as needed to have it appear where it needs to appear (and even when I need it to appear). If a task is part of a larger Draft with other tasks and notes (i.e. a project), marking a single task as complete is as simple as removing the date from its line. I use Flags to filter the most important things for the day to the top of my “Today” list. Organizing all of my tasks and projects is based entirely on tags, dates, and Workspaces looking for those tags/dates in Drafts. Ok, with that out of the way, I’d like to show you how I am using Drafts to manage tasks and projects. Advanced features, if you need them, can be unlocked via a $20 yearly subscription. If you haven’t done so yet, give it a look and try it out. A quick visit to the Drafts Community and Action Directory highlight this. If you want it to do more, it can do more. Nothing is there to distract you from your present.īut, like I said, it is also very flexible. Open it again and you are met with the same blinking cursor. Write so you don’t forget whatever came to mind, then go about your day. When you open Drafts you are met with a blinking cursor, nothing else. The beautiful thing about Drafts is that it can be as simple or as complex as you want/need it to be. The primary intent and use of the app is capturing text, and then using “Actions” to put the text wherever it needs to go. #RI PUBLIC PORTAL SMART SEARCH PROFESSIONAL#I now have a “system” that could be run very well using basic text files, and I may experiment with that in the future, but for now I am very satisfied and at home in managing my personal and professional responsibilities in an application called Drafts.įor those of you that do not know about Drafts, it is an iOS and Mac application that focuses on capturing whatever is on your mind. Through all of this experimenting, learning, and doing, I determined that it is best if I manage things at their most basic form: with words, numbers, and symbols. ![]() I have been using all of these like a pin-ball machine over the past fifteen years, jumping from one system to the next, in search of “the one” to meet all of my needs.Īs I tend to do in life, I go all in and over complicate something that is simple in practice so that I can fully understand whatever the thing is. I have used all of the expected tools for keeping track of things that need doing: pen and paper, Things, OmniFocus, Todoist, Trello, Taskpaper, Bullet Journal, Apple Reminders, Any.do, and so forth and so on. Simplicity, and endeavoring to keep things simple. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |