There is a business analyst saying that “If you don’t measure it, you can’t control it”.
With it looking ever more likely that the UK would soon lock down, on Sunday afternoon, I removed all the food from my cupboards, my fridge and freezer and have recorded it in Trello.
Continue reading Tracking my food in Trello
For the last five or six years, I’ve been using a combination of Todoist and Trello to manage my various to do lists and projects but since Doist introduced Todoist Foundations last year, I’ve had to revise how I think about how I organise myself.
Continue reading Todoist sections are a game-changer in how I organise myself
Above: photo by Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash
Every Sunday evening I sit down to review the previous week and plan the week ahead. This is my weekly review, a discipline that I adopted after reading Sally McGhee’s book Take Back Your Life in 2003.
One of the first things I do during my weekly review is read a document I wrote in October 2017 that I called The Discipline™. Occasionally, I update it to keep it fresh and relevant; it’s a living document.
It’s a reminder of what is important to me right now, what I should be focusing on. It’s like a little manifesto for my life—something to give me direction, to help me prioritise.
Continue reading How I start my weekly review
My personal organisation system has evolved over the years in an iterative rather agile approach.
This post outlines the major building blocks of my current system.
Continue reading An overview of my planning and productivity system in 2019
This evening I updated a script I first wrote back in March 2014. I wrote about it on the old University of St Andrews web team blog.
The script, which runs in the browser using an add-on such as Tampermonkey, lets you define Trello list titles to search for, and then apply a background colour to it.
Continue reading Trello coloured lists for Tampermonkey updated to v4.x