Desire: Effective time management
Online strategies
- Add your schedule and activities to a digital calendar include reminders and alerts
- Sync your work, school, or athletic calendar with your personal digital calendar
- Set a timer to focus on tasks and take breaks
- Set an alarm to remember appointments or tasks
- Use reminders to remember appointments or tasks
Offline strategies
- Add schedule and activities to paper calendar or planner
- Set alarms on clock, watch, or smartphone
- Establish routines
- Block chunks of time for specific tasks
- Set a timer to take short breaks
- Plan time for transition between activities
Desire: Organization
Online strategies
- Digital folders for file organization
- Note taking application for organizing notes and multi-media
- Whiteboard application to organize ideas
Offline strategies
- Label or color code paper folders
- Label or color code notebooks
- Checklist of materials
- Desk organizers
- Paper graphic organizers
Desire: Memory aids and task management
Online strategies
- Use a task management app with categorized columns and task cards
- Set reminders to remember appointments or tasks
- Set alarms to remember appointments or tasks
- Reference a digital to-do list
- Speak a voice note
- Put digital sticky notes on your computer desktop
Offline strategies
- Notebook or planner to record information, notes, lists, and reminders
- Instructions and checklists
- Sticky notes
- Color code to prioritize tasks
Desire: Concentration and focus
Online strategies
- Use a focus tool in computer operating systems to silence notifications for a period of time
- Set an online timer to stay on task or for a reminder to take a break
Offline strategies
- Quiet environment
- Hang Do Not Disturb sign
- Smartphone Do Not Disturb feature to silence notifications
- Noise cancelling headset
- White noise machine
- Remove distractions and clutter from workspace
- Work or study during your most productive time of day
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