Whether you love to know that all of your tasks, calls or meetings are appropriately recorded and sorted or you know that you need to put a more structured approach in place, this blog post has lots of suggestions.
There are lots of mobile apps, desktop browser widgets or pieces of software that claim to make a real difference to the day to day workplace, by organising and supporting your tasks.
We round up the best of these below...
- According to Forbes ASAP, the typical executive today wastes 150 hours a year, almost one month, searching for lost information. For someone earning $50,000 a year, that translates to a loss of $3,842. (Source: Simply Productive)
- The average office employee spends 1.5 hours a day (6 weeks per year) looking for things. (Source: The Organising Boutique / Organized World)
- 80% of papers and information that we keep, we never use, Agency Sales Magazine. (Source: Simply Productive)
- 23% of adults say they pay bills late (& thus incur fees) because they lose them. (Source: The Organising Boutique / NAPO)
3 Apps and Software To Improve Organisation and Productivity
Trello
A fantastic application for desktop browsers and mobile devices that provides a visual organisation tool. Use the cards and lists to organise tasks into "To Do" "Awaiting Department A" etc and assign jobs to individuals, plus categorise, comment with updates on the progress and add a goal date for the task completion.
Evernote
Ideal and the most popular choice for organising notes and research. Evernote has a free version and is ideal for syncing notes across devices and recording notes, information or files in many ways. Record your notes using audio on your smart phone, jot them down or take a picture. Perfect for those that are always making to do lists on scrap pieces of paper, in their "Notes" section of their phone or in notebooks at work - make everything digital and easily accessible!
Google Docs
Not necessarily a organisational tool, per se, but it can radicalise the way your company interacts with one another, therefore encouraging an organised approach to work. Team members can work on documents at the same time and share updates to documents with ease. It also ideally connects to Gmail accounts you might have, as well as multiple other add ons. This also makes it really easy for producing presentations that are accessible anywhere with an internet connection.
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