Time management is a strange thing; mental faculty management…even stranger. I’ve managed to color code my calendars and live by them. I know what I need to complete by when, when to meet with who and where, and what meeting I need to prepare for. However, now that I have mastered one aspect of my life, I find myself facing another challenge: the difficulty in being productive AND organized.
My physical workspace must be pristine before I sit down to work, but only remains in that state for about an hour. As I sit down and focus on my work I find quotes to jot down on post-it notes, important emails force me to find old paperwork, and the surface area of my desktop piles up with rations from my concerned roommates. This progressive chaos that is my desk is nothing but a barren desert when compared to the contents of my many notebooks.
My commonplace books are filled with nearly anything you could imagine: sketches, recipes, quotes, letters, poems, movie pitches, proverbs, dreams, inventions, equations related to quantum theory etc. These books have become an essential part of my day-to-day life; I use them religiously for remembering useful concepts or promising project ideas. The only problem: they are completely disorganized.
Unfortunately I can’t hire an assistant to remedy this…my student budget doesn’t have room for this expense. If only I could find a way to throw my work and my ideas into a database/search engine so that I could find what I need when I need it….
What would I like for Christmas?
DEVONthink – a Mac app for “intelligent document management and associative search”. All I would need to do is transfer my books onto my computer and file them away!
My problems are solved! And color-coded. And organized based on effect and relevance.
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