The key to Productivity is Organisation.

Organisation by design. 

The key to productivity is organisation.

The key to productivity is organisation. Thats it, Just organisation. Take a read of the guide below and see what works for you; You’ll be surprised at how much more you can accomplish.

Keep a list. Tick it off. Smile.

Sticky Notes are fun reminders to have around the place, Heres what mine look like;

Your brain isn’t a notebook, Humans are engineered to forget. Keep a to-do list, We’ve all got chores or tasks that have to be done in a day, So why not organise them? Keep a list with checkboxes next to the tasks and tick them off as you go along, It will help you to be more efficient with your workflow and you’ll feel a lot more productive when you tick them off on a sheet of paper, It’s a feeling of success.

Small things don’t seem very productive or at all that your making a difference, But they do — If you wrote a page every day for a year, You would have written a novel.

Working on a project/client project/assignment?

Get a calendar & break the project into small little chunks and cross them off as you go along, It is the most effective way to get things done, It emphasizes on process.. Keep a notebook/logbook or some form of change log on your project.

Labelling/Branding Things.

Colouring your notes and highlighting them does a lot more than making them ‘pretty’ — Colour can help you learn & It’s a lot nicer to look at then just.. Blue Ink. What about next time you go to updated your design in InDesign or Photoshop, and your Layers are all grouped and labelled logically, It saves you time and you’re probaply going to be a lot more productive and creative because your not wasting precious brain power on finding that Gradient layer?

Productive Procrastination?

Practice productive procrastination — have 2 or 3 projects going at one time, so if you get sick of one, you can jump over to the other. Procastination often has lots of negative connotations, But it can be used for the greater good, You just have to figure out how.

Improve by design.

You need to find a way to increase your productivity and to do so you need to improve your organisation. I was possibly the most unorganised person, Untill I had a Mathematics teacher who was meticulous about layout, and believed art could be found in algebra. When I started laying out my Maths homework more beautifully and more meticulously not only did it look better for the corrector, but my work also starting improving.

Why?
Because of my Improved organisation, Because it looked better, I was more optimistic about the work and well, doing the work. He thought me design in maths, Design in a logical, arithmetically minded subject!. Which is really weird because one does not usually see design in more logical subjects like maths, Design is usually forgotten about, But when the two are put together it just works. Thank you, Mr. Crowe.