Revising the process.

It was a great shock to me that my to-do list, calendar, email, and notes all failed this week as the semester ended. I had a system in place involving Toodledo, Google Calendar, Gmail with ActiveInbox, and Evernote. The combination was so cluttered that although I turned in all my schoolwork by the end of the semester, I missed a crucial personal to-do, a social engagement, and I am horribly behind on a few other important projects. Today I am starting all over, nearly from scratch. Here is my new system: Stop using Toodledo. I love all of its bells and whistles, but bells and whistles just distract me from actually doing the tasks. Organize my tasks in a simple system that can be accessed via web, computer, and iPhone and keeps all of them synced. I have...

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