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20 Apps to Organize Your Thoughts. I always did like those posts that list a bunch of apps and tools I’d never heard of.

20 Apps to Organize Your Thoughts

I’ve found some really great apps that way. But no one’s ever bothered to offer us one of those “check these out!” Posts – until today. Please welcome today’s guest poster, James Adams, and his collection of apps to organize thoughts. (We could all use more of that, eh!) Everyone these days is busy. The Internet is home to many tools that will assist you in saving your favorite websites, keeping track of your appointments, making mind maps, taking notes and creating notes to keep you on track. 1. Our friends at Google have developed this application to assist you in collecting notes and information from the Internet. 2. This tool is ideal if you find yourself too occupied with something to take notes. 3. This helpful application is a management tool that allows you to store and access your content from anywhere. 4. 5. 6. 7.

This is a desktop note-taking app for Linux and Unix users. Organised Thoughts. Lift International : Home of Brian Mayne's Goal Mapping, the natural system for goal setting success. Recovering from information overload - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - Talent. For all the benefits of the information technology and communications revolution, it has a well-known dark side: information overload and its close cousin, attention fragmentation.

Recovering from information overload - McKinsey Quarterly - Organization - Talent

These scourges hit CEOs and their colleagues in the C-suite particularly hard because senior executives so badly need uninterrupted time to synthesize information from many different sources, reflect on its implications for the organization, apply judgment, make trade-offs, and arrive at good decisions. The importance of reserving chunks of time for reflection, and the difficulty of doing so, have been themes in management writing for decades. Look no further than Peter Drucker’s 1967 classic, The Effective Executive, which emphasized that “most of the tasks of the executive require, for minimum effectiveness, a fairly large quantum of time.” Yet they are devilishly difficult to implement, and getting more so all the time.

Better solutions exist, and they aren’t rocket science. The perils of multitasking Focus. 10 ways to improve your motivation and make running a business feel like a holiday. “We are what we repeatedly do.” - Aristotle It is an interesting fact that most people spend longer planning a two-week holiday than they do planning their workload during the other fifty weeks of the working year.

10 ways to improve your motivation and make running a business feel like a holiday

Why is that? It is because they want to make maximum use of their time. They want to get maximum value for money. They know that every moment counts. That sounds a lot like running a successful business. Whatever led you to your business idea, your chances of success will increase many times over if you make optimum use of every minute in your day; if you have genuine belief in your idea and a passion for your business plan. The important thing is to know what you want, why you want it and to make sure that every day your actions and behaviours take you closer to your true objective – and are aligned with what matters to you the most. Five Best Note Taking Applications. Psychology Today: Health, Help, Happiness + Find a Therapist.