Organization and Project Management Tools To Try Today

I'm sort of a project management and organization nerd. Here are some tools I've used over the years.

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Welcome to the Me, Myself, and You podcast.

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My name is Sara and I'm your host and I'm really glad to have you here as usual.

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I hope you're having a good day today.

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I wanted to talk a little bit about like organization and project management and that kind of stuff because I'm a big fan of

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those things.

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I like things to be pretty organized and put together and I've had the opportunity to work with a few different project

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management tools through work and another volunteer things her track and that sort of Stuff all the things on my resume, you

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know, so I wanted to kind of walk you through some of my favorites.

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So first off, I recently discovered this tool called notion and it's super customizable and I'm somewhat obsessed.

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I'm actually using it to organize podcast stuff right now and it's incredible.

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It's very like all-in-one and just its functions like a database.

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It's honestly incredible if you haven't checked it out death in Italy do I know I've mentioned Michelle be on this podcast

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before she has a lot of information about it and some Guerrilla great templates.

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I actually just got some free ones from her because I had ordered a planner which I'm also going to talk about in this episode.

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So definitely check that out.

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It's very just if you want to be able to customize stuff kind of like bullet journaling but more computery more data base e and

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more, you know, it's not handwritten.

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So it's a little fast.

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It's quick to change notion is your thing.

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Monday is something I use for work and I'm kind of obsessed.

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There's a lot of functionality with being able to use statuses like, you know, like it you can mark something is done ready to

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review you can customize what those statuses are.

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You can assign people to it.

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There's notifications any kind of functionality you would need with a project management system for a team.

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Monday has it I personally haven't tried using it.

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Just for myself, and I don't know that I would see it being super helpful.

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If it was just me because I don't need that notification function that Monday really helps with a lot but it's very cool for

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team stuff.

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If you need that base camp is another team project management tool I've used and that one's pretty interesting as well.

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I will say I probably prefer Monday in a lot of ways.

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But I definitely see base camp is being easier to use for uploading Graphics files chatting back and forth with people that has

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like an instant message function.

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I'm trying to think what else there's calendars and stuff like that that I'm not sure that Monday has but I could be entirely

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wrong on that.

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Next is Google Sheets in this for me is like the OG project management blog organization thing I used to you.

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Is Google Sheets heavily for all of my blog staff for project management for work all of that because obviously it's free and I

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bet you basically would build spreadsheets honestly, if you don't know how to do spreadsheets in general you need to learn how

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it's a it'll give you an edge for your career for sure.

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I will say that and it's so nice to be able to know how to use that to make it function first so many different things like it's

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not just a tool for budgeting and accounting and all that stuff.

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It's very much can be something for you know, a marketing calendar or anything.

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I mean really it's got so much flexibility.

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Although not nearly as much as notion.

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So notion is definitely your go-to if you want basically like all-in-one like to do lists and spreadsheets and repeat processes

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and all the things.

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I'm obsessed bullet journaling.

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Something that I used to do all the time and I have found that I'm not in a spot anymore where it makes sense for me.

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I loved it as a student and freelancer but especially as a student but I haven't found that I've had the time for it since

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finishing school.

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I just feel like digital makes more sense for me now because I'm on the computer constantly, but also just having something that

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I don't have to put in a ton of work to build these new spreads and what not.

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Like I need something that's a little quicker.

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Sort of thing next a couple of paper planners that I wanted to share about.

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I've shared about the passion Planner on my blog before I'm a definitely a big fan of having the separate work in personal to-do

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list that they have in there as along with the hourly layout.

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It's a really great just basic black and white planner, but also definitely allows you to focus on a lot of different areas in

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your life.

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It has a lot of good prompts in there.

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I'm really I really like that one and next I just D life map daily planner, which is Michelle bees planner actually and on

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YouTube She's Michelle with the you instead of an eye just to clarify.

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I'm definitely really excited to get that planner and get started.

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It's a 12 or 13 weakling Arts last quarter of the year and definitely has a lot of prompts and stuff.

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But I guess I'm feeling like I need a little more daily focus and trying to stay more in tune with my goals on a day-to-day

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basis outside of my work my full-time job if that makes sense.

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So I'm excited to dig into that.

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Those are just a few of the things that I've been playing with recently and over the years in general.

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Let me know what project management and organization tools you use and I would love if you would give this podcast to follow

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subscribe all that stuff shared if you liked it, and I think that's it.

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So I will talk to you again soon.