Help me find a fabulous organiser for work

[ChaoticFrog]

I am really struggling to keep on top of things for work at the moment. It is busy, we do need extra staff, but that's a different issue.

I am flitting between meetings on different topics, making notes on scraps of paper, coming up with ideas at random times and putting them somewhere random in a note book then never finding them again.

Can anyone recommend a system or an organiser I can buy to help me bring some more structure to my life? My brain is spinning and I feel there must be some way of managing it.

Fully acknowledge I can't function like this long term, but I need a short term paper based system to help me be less chaotic! Something lovely that I will be proud to use and take care of and will give the appearance of a professional 50 year old woman and not the bumbling fool I currently look like.

I just use an A5 lined notebook, the ones from Muji are good as fold flat, but any supermarket one will do. Write down everything,

A complicated, fancy, expensive organiser won't sort your life out.

The other thing i do is make sure everything is in my outlook calendar, everything - DC appointments, meetings, yoga, scheduled time to read emails.

There's an app called Braintoss which you can use to make voice notes, written notes or photos when you're out and about - they all get emailed to you. So useful when you bump into your boss in the corridor and get asked to do 15 things 😊

@Tallisker that sounds amazing! Will definitely look at that, my boss definitely in that category. 😁

https://productivitymethod.com/

Me! But you can't afford me 😁. I use a whiteboard and put tasks on as I get them, then I have the satisfaction of wiping them off. At the beginning of the day I check for new tasks and prioritise them . This may mean that existing tasks get moved down the list, so it's important to try to put a completion date/time by them if you can.

Also OneNote is good for organising stuff, but I still stick to a paper notebook and highlighter pens most of the time 😁