How to combine different forms?

2008-01-14T10:07:07-05:00

Hello Folks,

David did a great work with this timers & trackers! Thanks a lot for that.

Since i have heard of this website, i've worked (actually i work with) my filofax. (a5 format)

I need this tool, cause i'm very often out of my home-office, work with different customers and have to fill out different 'trackers' for finished work.

It's very simple to plan meetings and keep me up to date. The only problem is, it makes me crazy to add (on this timetable) done work.

At the end of each day, i have a ... let's say .. very unclear timetable for the finished day. Sometimes, theres about 30 finished topics ... uargs. - it's very unstructured.

There's some great ideas from different companies to solve this problems. (in my opinion, a lot of freelancers have this problem) But in my opinion, there's no solution who is perfect. (at the end for me ;-))

The question is, how to combine a filofax (so, a 'book', who is clear in the struktur of itselfs, cause of no several papers) and this great tools of david.

I feel really happy with this emergent task timer (the wide power user edition). So i can plan every day. But, i need a a5 edition ;-)

But i also have projects beyond two or three month, sometimes half a year long. For this, the progress tracker is a very good tool.

For short projects in the future, i would like to take the task order up! tool.

Now i have three different tools (one for every day) and one for projects and one for short tasks, who are not solved on the same day/week.

Do you have a plan, how to create a a5 version of the day-planer (emergent task timer), combine it with a a progress tracker and mix it up with this great order up! tool? :-)

At my point, it's hard to keep (most of the time) two of the three forms up to date: (e.g): I have a conference call with a customer, i pick up the task order up! and write a new task:

description: tell bob something about the printable ceo due date: jan. 30, 2008

The next few day's are very busy, so i put the task on my task-table (pin) - or in my filofax in the category 'tasks'...

Ok, now i have time to finish the task.

I need half a hour (i paint in to of the time-bubbles) and finished the task by writing the 'hours logged'

But in the same time, i have to fill out my emergent task timer with the same topic - stupid! isn't it? (But i have to fill it out, otherwise it's very hard for me to see what's happend on the day) - it's the redundancy problem.

Ok, thanks a lot for some anwers!

best regards, Max.

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