HELP!!! I need tips on how to be organised at work

[Luredbyapomegranate]

Please can share what simple systems you use to hold back the chaos. ESPECIALLY if you lean to being naturally disorganised/ADHD and have somehow cracked it. (You genius you.)

I have a professional job managing people and projects, so I’m not a total muppet, I just would get a lot more done/feel less stressed/have more time off if my shit was more together.

Thanks to anyone who answers this call..

@SickAndTiredAgain

People who turn off email notifications - doesn’t it stress you out? I’d be worrying I was ignoring something urgent because I didn’t know it was there.

Nope! I still check multiple times a day; it just means I'm not interrupted by the notification when I'm working on a particular task. Plus if something is urgent, someone will generally message on Teams rather than email - but that may be a company culture thing.

I have a weekly to do list and highlight the daily tasks each morning. If it's quick to do I do it and tick it off right away. So satisfying!

@ICouldHaveCheckedFirst

I second switching off email notifications, learning to use Rules to manage Outlook emails, and converting emails to Tasks.

David Allen developed the Getting Things Done method, which is great. At work we were lucky enough to go on a course which was about putting GTD into practice through the various tools available (Outlook has many features most people don't learn, OneNote and others).

I loved the GTD book. That and Atomic Habits helped me hugely.