Ask HN: How do you stay organized at work?

1 points by pantsme 6y ago ↗ HN

I am struggling with staying organized and keeping all of my tasks and todos in order at work. This has been a nagging issue for me and I'm looking for any advice that others have. We use Jira for issue/project tracking, but there's always those little side items that I constantly lose track of. I've tried to use Outlook Tasks, Slack reminders, postit notes, a notebook I carry everywhere, and countless other things but I either stop using them or just forget. Any tips are extremely welcome!

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jerruh72 6y ago ↗

I use Trello and created a Kanban type board. I have to do lists for different projects, in progress (which I try to minimize), and done. Simple and effective.

tomklein 6y ago ↗

I use Asana/Jira for team organization and for everything personal, I use Focus Matrix (iOS App). It’s based on the Eisenhower Matrix which is really helping me a lot.

ddavis 6y ago ↗

I use Org-mode for everything. It's truly an amazing piece of software. You mentioned using Jira for work, well there's an elisp package for using Jira with Org-mode! (https://github.com/ahungry/org-jira)