Articles translated for management, getting things done, time management, productivity, strategic business purpose. We have more than 10 years of experience using task management tools such as Ayoa, Todoist, Trello
This comparison of Evernote, Nimbus, Notion and Todoist is based on quite extensive usage. Evernote I use Evernote as the document library, but increasingly I use Notion for all things archive, for collections and databases, issues. While Evernote was the goto...
Business management software helps to fix objectives and plan for change. If you are an entrepreneur, try to learn as much as possible, since this management creates and maintains the production capacity that will enable you to work. Many thinking hats...
If you use Evernote as your GTD inbox, you may find this system useful. It uses a Kanbanote dashboard to filter and sort content to drive next actions in Evernote. Functional Requirement The functional GTD requirement is to have a way...
Despite my evaluation of Ayoa being too slow for everyday use, I have come back to the Ayoa workflow because currently, I know no better way of organizing Evernotes into a kanban such that it actually generates action. However, I retain...
The challenge for me has been to write more about Ayoa when I am no longer entirely convinced – and no longer use it operationally. I was very keen at first and included Ayoa in my trusted management system. I built...
The Trusted Management System is an extension of the GTD idea of Trusted system. Here I describe my system configuration, how it meets my requirements and the benefits of each module. There are many ways to build a managment system: either...
You can pilot tasks with Evernote to advance research on a topic. But what other management tools can you use to move actions in the desired direction? Your Evernote research base may be quite large. The challenge then is to take...
Use Todoist as a task manager to visualize and sequence activities, especially for information workers. Here is a summary of the main features when evaluating your task management tools. Why Todoist as a task manager? Days are never linear for information...
A company can use its information system to manage goals and performance and must determine how to manage staff performance. The objectives of vertical management Each service has its margin objectives, sometimes in conflict with each other. Sales must sell a...
The next creation is a follow-on from the management video with things I like in Todoist. Sections in Todoist Sections are a good thing. They are like the sections in Ayoa which are circles and subsets in the canvas. But now...
The canvas and workflow views in Ayoa are very helpful to visually model your tasks. You can easily swap categories and subcategories and add dependencies between tasks. Swap from the canvas views to the workflow (work breakdown structure) view: These perspectives...
Define your projects following Kepner Tregoe with Ayoa to define your project, establish a work breakdown, sequence and schedule deliverables What would be the added benefit of applying Kepner Tregoe to a project managed in Ayoa? Defining the project Am I...
My planner in Ayoa is an opportunity to play around with your tasks and to juggle what you should be doing or what you think you should be doing now. It is about focusing on the important and urgent priorities, the...
I finally got all my KPI onto one visual management board in Access. This is the completion of an old project where I had KPI all over the place in Excel and in Access, with a very complicated production mechanism between...
The link mindmaps and tasks in Ayoa enables you both to break down a subject into next actions or to build up a mind map from Evernotes. One of the interesting functions that I discovered, as part of my Evaluation of...
I think that the most important concept in GTD is next action. It is also the easiest, simplest of ideas to implement. If I want to achieve something what is the next thing, the next action? Not all the actions. Not...
This is the technical translation process from receiving an initial job request to getting, managing and completing and invoicing technical translation orders. The technical translation process with Trello The idea is to describe the technical translation process itself. I have an...
To find purpose and direction in your life and your business is to know where you’re going. Managing is about knowing your intended destination. However, you may wonder whether you are heading in the hoped-for direction. To understand whether you are...
Use kanbanote to implement the Eisenhower method and focus on Evernotes which are urgent and important. Use Evernote as a library If you use Evernote to organise all your stuff, whether it be as a technical library or a list of...
Use the Trello Kanban to implement the Eisenhower method and distinguish important and urgent tasks from non-important and non-urgent tasks. This classic Eisenhower diagram helps to sort important and urgent tasks from the less important less urgent ones. The grid is...
There are many project management methods available but the most important tool in your arsenal is the trusted system. I’ve looked at and used many different types of software starting with Toodledo, then Todoist, Droptask and now Trello, which is clearly...
Getting Things Done GTD is a fantastic framework for managing a business written and developed by David Allen. I use it selectively. I retain the bits that are of practical use to me, the parts that can be integrated into my...
Creating relationships between ideas generates more ideas. This is the heart of creativity. Mindmap links to create new ideas. The mind functions through association. Brain structures are neural connections. Creativity comes from creating links between different areas, by the association of ideas....
Bottom-up analysis collects together recorded issues to solve together in a project as a group. Top-down analysis breaks a concept down into parts. A project starts with an idea to implement. The rest is about how to get it done, the...
The management process is a combination of using the right tools, within a process. It requires analysing new ideas, structuring action using an organised method. Tools in the Management Process I have a list of business management tools that I use...
The value of a company is the stored internal value of its information system. An internal forum for employees is a great way to enhance this value, to exchange with colleagues and help to manage issues. An internal forum can also...
Trello has many features including checklists, links, a description section and comments. Trello Plus reporting makes Trello into a powerful management system. It uses kanban which is simple and visual (drag and drop, ability to play, no nested tasks) links (to...
Use Evernote as a document library when focusing on or researching a domain. Such an investigation requires lots of information, documents and references to sites. Evernote is useful as a business memory as you can store material and links easily, but also comment...
The do measure analyse cycle helps to get things done by helping to stand back from your actions and analyse performance based on quantitative measures. See three essentials of Getting Things Done You are noting things in your task planner, and...
Its easy to have ideas. The challenge is to transform ideas into real action. What [todo] systems can help transform ideas into action. This post originally touted Ayoa as the tool to transform ideas into action....
Kanban is simple and provides a clear arrangement which is used in several management tools including Odoo, Trello, Kanbanote and Droptas From a visual point of view, kanban is reassuring since everything is visible. From a psychological point of view, this...
Mindmapping is a two-stage technique, first mind dumping, then critical analysis. Mindmapping is useful in planning an essay, in business meetings and business analysis, or just when collecting thoughts on a theme. Apply mindmapping to problem-solving, in defining projects, a presentation...
The Compuprod Case Study determines the main functions within a company, the interfaces between functions and people, and the requirements for communication. Original work used in teaching information systems theory. The company context The company is a large Japanese computer producer...
Some of the material here is about documenting management experience, providing guidelines and tips, techniques and recommendations for using business management software. The objective is to share on the many uses of mindmapping, systems analysis and visual modelling. Having spent many...
Kepner Tregoe Decision Analysis as developed by is a method to evaluate and score available options in an objective manner. The appropriate decision is then the one with the highest score. Clarify the Purpose State the decision What decision do we need to...
The Eisenhower matrix helps reduce the stress of decision-making by placing tasks in a grid arranged by importance and urgency. I find it more appropriate to talk about managing priorities that managing time and the Eisenhower matrix helps to determine tasks,...
Taking notes with a mindmap helps to focus on the subject and related subjects rather than the time sequence of the meeting I read about the concept of mind-mapping many years ago and have never looked back; I use mind-mapping now...
The water distribution system is an example of a system described in UML and that a system can be described by its observed properties. The diagram below is a UML use case model of a modern urban distribution system and depicts...
Visual models are often underestimated and underused. Mindmapping and visual modelling are powerful techniques for communication Mindmapping is useful to start an activity diagram, a use case, the description of a system and provide a basis to formalise a model in...
Document both structured backbone systems and informal information systems to guarantee operations against the turnover of information holders. Information systems in the broader sense include the informal verbal systems, the coffee machine and water-cooler discussions. People normally think of the internal...
Changes to systems are driven by changing conditions, requiring system documentation to be maintained in line with strategy. The Specification Process System changes start with the business. The main issue in systems development is the translation of business requirements into technical...
