How I get things done - 4

It looks lovely here. Clearer, more organised. All around me and inside me too. I’ve taken two more ideas from the book *How I Get Things Done*

- List of pending replies: Sometimes you send people an email or ask them for something and have to wait for a reply. It’s always on your mind. To stop it being on your mind, it’s wiser to jot it down straight away on a „reply pending“ list. Either on paper, electronically, or in a separate folder in your inbox.

- Separate reference material from tasks. There are documents you keep because you need to refer to them from time to time – for me, these include, for example, lists of titles and ISBNs, or lists of new releases. I’m naturally working on the new releases as well, and there are things to do and plan in that regard. If everything – reference material and to-do items – ends up in a single list or folder, it soon becomes confusing. It’s better to keep things clearly separate: put all the documents you still need to act on into one section, folder or inbox. Put only the documents you need to refer to in another.

The advantage is that this approach quickly reduces the pile of work and makes processes clearer and more organised. You don’t have to rummage through stacks of paper; instead, you only have the sheets relating to your tasks in front of you. It’s very relaxing.