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How I Organize My Entire Life With One Tool
I keep track of my freelance clients, side projects, and personal life all in one place
I’ve tried more productivity apps than I can count. I’m a sucker of an app that promises to change the way that I work and keep me more organized. But jumping from app to app, tool to tool tends to defeat the purpose of staying more organized. Every time I have to start over on a new platform, I lose the momentum I had built on the previous one. The result is a disorganized mess of to-do lists that I can’t keep track of.
Through every new tool I try, there was one that acted as a sort of baseline that I compared the rest to.
For me, the one that stuck through the years was Asana. Even though Asana is designed as more of a tool for teams to communicate through various stages of a project, I’ve set it up to meet all of my needs as a team of one.
Since I’m a team of 1, I don’t get to use things like the comments feature to its full potential because It would just be me leaving comments to myself (which I sometimes do). Instead, I use Asana more like a glorified to-do list that lets me keep track of everything I need to do in my business, side projects and in my personal life.
