Comment by GarnetFloride
21 hours ago
I love exploring different organizational systems.
Getting Things Done is good for project management but falls down for organizing.
Marie Kondo is good at organizing and deciding if something is worth keeping or not, but has issues with scale.
Covey/Daytimer was good for time management but didn't do project management all that well.
Jamie Hynaman has a massive wall of transparent boxes for organizing materials for his shop but all the hammers are in one box and you have to go to that box to get the hammer whenever you need one.
Adam Savage's system puts his most needed tools right around each workstation but it's expensive as he had multiple copies of many tools.
Kitchens use mise en place to prep and organize the ingredients for cooking so they can 100-200 plates out to table a day.
There's PARA, and Zettlekasten for organizing information.
There are, all told, tens of thousands of rules for writers.
In the end I see them all as tools for solving problems and not all of them work for all problems and that's okay, if I can find a tool to make solving a problem I am currently working on easier, that's wonderful or I make something myself.
>Adam Savage's system puts his most needed tools right around each workstation but it's expensive as he had multiple copies of many tools.
It's a tradeoff. For travel, I obviously don't have multiple passports or high-value items. But it's absolutely worth having some extra cords and toiletries so I have dedicated travel kits for those sorts of items. Not perfect or absolute but being able to more or less grab a couple kits and throw them in my luggage works for a lot of purposes.