{"id":460,"date":"2011-11-14T21:12:59","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2011-11-14T21:12:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:12:59","slug":"patching-productivity-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/14\/patching-productivity-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Patching Productivity Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Productivity defines your success quotient in YOU INC.<br \/>\nYour ability to get things done in the time is really important for you, your business and your business partners.\u00a0\u00a0Recently I came face to face with myself again as I considered my use of time.\u00a0\u00a0Sure, I&#8217;ve been practicing Getting Things Done strategies for years.\u00a0\u00a0Yes I actually get pretty good for a while there.\u00a0\u00a0Today I decided to reflect on what I am really doing and share with you some of my conclusions.\u00a0\u00a0I hope you find these issues helpful in refining your Personal Productivity Patterns.<br \/>\nAny analsys must begin with a gap analysis.\u00a0\u00a0You know.\u00a0\u00a0What is the gap between what I&#8217;ve got and what I want?<br \/>\nWhat I want is a fully functional productive system:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/teachjim\/6345746687\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Productivity Pattern Wants \" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6092\/6346560208_7a91e1f942.jpg\" alt=\"What we want from our productivity patterns\" width=\"400\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhat I&#8217;ve got is strong except for the labeled concerns:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Productivity Mastered\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6056\/6346527748_015eaa107a_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"221\" \/><br \/>\nWhat I need seems to be the items marked in red:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"What we need to improve our productivity patterns\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6053\/6346527756_d3521eb1ca_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn this case I&#8217;m pretty satisfied except for three main areas.<br \/>\n1. Processing my inbox fully.<br \/>\n2. Having a single repository for storage and\u00a0retrieval.<br \/>\n3. Staying fully focused for entire work blocks of time.<br \/>\nAs I wonder why I&#8217;m not processing my inbox I came to the conclusion it is because I have several different repositories for my inbox info.\u00a0\u00a0I do not trust how well I can get things out of these different repositories.\u00a0\u00a0Accordingly, I am reluctant to put things into the &#8220;untrusted&#8221; system.<br \/>\nI NEED a TRUSTED repository for ALL or most of my important stuff. I&#8217;m looking at an online\/offline notes system.\u00a0\u00a0ToodleDo has a notebook section but it only handles basic text.\u00a0\u00a0Spring Pad It\u00a0\u00a0is good for offline \/ online collection of a variety of document\/note types but the tagging\/notebook structure seems too binding.\u00a0\u00a0When I conduct searches and my stuff is not showing up it is frustrating.\u00a0\u00a0I&#8217;m thinking maybe Evernote with multiple &#8220;note&#8221; types and it&#8217;s text in image recognition capabilities.\u00a0\u00a0But is the search stronger than SpringPadIt?<br \/>\nAre there other options for a single repository for my &#8220;valuable&#8221; things processed from my inbox?\u00a0\u00a0What are you using?\u00a0\u00a0What do you see as the options?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personal Productivity defines your success quotient in YOU INC. Your ability to get things done in the time is really important for you, your business and your business partners.\u00a0\u00a0Recently I came face to face with myself again as I considered my use of time.\u00a0\u00a0Sure, I&#8217;ve been practicing Getting Things Done strategies for years.\u00a0\u00a0Yes I actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teachjim.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}