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A Glimpse Into My Productivity Workflow

January 4, 2017 by Ashwin Leave a Comment

Productivity Workflow

Happy New Year to you, my beloved reader!  May 2017 be extremely successful for you and your loved ones.

As I was pondering about my first post in 2017, a thought struck me.  Why not share my personal productivity workflow?  It has worked really well for me and I hope you find it useful too.

Here is a sketch I made over the weekend.  Don’t worry if it is confusing, I will walk you through it.

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Ashwin’s Productivity Workflow

The workflow depicts the way I consume, organize and create information.

  1. Interesting stuff on the Internet – Such stuff come through various sources.  Twitter, Quora, Facebook, LinkedIn are a few to mention.  I use Pocket to bookmark stuff for later reads and Evernote to clip interesting content
  2. Random Ideas – So much of reading give rise to ideas.  I use a pocket notebook to jot down ideas on the go.  I personally find physical notebooks work well with idea generation.  From here they get into Trello
  3. Idea Branching – Normally, one idea gives rise to multiple sub-ideas.  Mindmaps do a great job here and my choice of tool is Lucidcharts
  4. Idea Organization – Workflowy, my recent find, is wonderful to organize ideas as a set of bullet points.  All I love is the minimalism with this tool
  5. Actionable Tasks – Ideas are worth nothing without actions.  From Workflowy and Trello, well-organized ideas turn into tasks (of course with reminders and deadlines).  After playing with various task management tools, I settled on Wunderlist
  6. Spreading the Ideas – When it comes to good ideas, dissemination is the key.  I prefer to do it on my own websites and WordPress is my default choice!
  7. Teaching – Lastly, I use all the knowledge gained in this workflow to teach others.  Udemy and Teachable are the two platforms of my choice (watch our for my courses here 🙂 )

Though I use a lot of tools, a pen and notebook do wonders when I cannot streamline my thoughts.  I am sure it dies with most of my acquaintances.

So, what is your productivity workflow?  Do you use some excellent tools which I missed?  Do give a shout and I am all ears!

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