You could say that the GTD method supports all of this. Like I said before, it is very important to directly bring over your ideas to some kind of storage, so you can forget them for the time being, and come back to them later to organize, prioritize and plan these ideas into actionable items. My personal workflow is partly based and inspired by the worldwide known and widely appreciated approach of David Allen, which he describes in his book “ Getting Things Done” [ And such a standard workflow works well for me, regardless of what idea, task and result it is about. No, in this article I mainly want to talk about one abstract level higher, namely how I manage the existence, recording and management of my random thoughts and ideas and how I eventually come from random thoughts to concrete refined ideas, projects and tasks. In the near future I will write about these specific topics in more detail in separate articles. In this article I am not going to talk about use case specific workflows, like my photography workflow, or my book writing workflow, or my blogging workflow. But I can share how my productivity workflow works, and maybe there are some useful ideas that can help you to set up your own personalized productivity workflow. A workflow is never exactly the same for all of us and therefore I will not prescribe what your workflow should look like.
#Workflowy kanban software#
The above list of steps in the process to move from basic thoughts and ideas, to manageable tasks, with the goal that in the end real results will be achieved in my prefered timelines, can be supported through an optimized and repeatable workflow, and software tools that support this workflow. And then you really want to work on it and you want to optimally plan and manage the tasks or to do’s, as a result of those initial loose thoughts you once started with. So you want to refine, organize and plan those thoughts. Those good, but still rough, thoughts and ideas can lead to simple single to do’s, to related to do’s, to projects, to life goals and so on.
Next you want to be able to look back later on that brain dump and determine which thoughts are good and useful, and which were not and can be forgotten. The nice thing about a brain dump is that you can forget all about these thoughts and ideas directly after writing them down and continue what you were actually doing when the thought or idea popped up. In the productivity world, capturing loose thoughts is also called brain dump, which is just an unorganized list of random ideas.
#Workflowy kanban registration#
I often have ideas at the strangest moments or locations, so I always make sure I am able to put my thoughts in some kind of registration tool that I have always with me, because it is very hard to remember everything without tools till the end of the day. So if you have an idea, please don’t ignore it as it could be a diamond in the rough.
Everything starts with raw, unexplored ideas that initially don’t have to be good ideas, but some could end up being great ones. And productivity, if you manage it well, then results hopefully in beautiful, handy, useful and perhaps world-improving products or services. Productivity is often the result of initial basic thoughts and ideas.
#Workflowy kanban series#
And even though I really make room in my life to watch tv series with my wife every day, listen some music, discuss a good book together, or just talk and think together about life and the world, nevertheless I also have a creative and productive side that I want to give a lot of attention, just because it gives me pleasure. Many friends and family members often tell me that I have a very busy life, ask how I keep it up, and whether I should not just sit back and just do nothing once in a while.
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