Time Management Baseline

While this year’s theme is time management, there are some things you should get in order before you start trying to structure a productivity system to help with your time management. In particular, you need to actually be able to track tasks that you need to do, whether they are on your most critical projects or not. You need to be able to focus on a single tasks or similar types of tasks effectively for a period of time. You need to be able to manage useful documentation, as well as more secure data so that you don’t waste time due to lack of structure. You also need to be able to track things like your habits and moods as part of creating useful feedback for your productivity system so that you can continue to improve. You also need to have some tooling in place for lightweight automations – a task that is done for you automatically ceases to be a burden, after all. Finally, you need to have a clean way to plan your work, beyond the level of what a todo list applic