Steven Robbins here and welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is having one system to capture your to-do items.

Hey, Steven, Doug, from Atlanta. I really enjoy the podcast and my question is, I have a lot of

projects and tasks that I have to go through

each and every day. I was trying to find out, do you have a better way to organize and track

your tasks? I use Outlook. I have an iPhone, paper, and it just seems to, there's not one item

that really translates well and lets me use it all around.

Thanks for all your help.

The quick and dirty tip?

Use a paper pad to capture tasks during the day and transfer to-dos to a master list daily.

Doug, you aren't alone.

In fact, everywhere you go, you're surrounded by clouds of billions of microbes all ready to be your friend.

But that's not important right now. What is important is that we all collect to-do items. Someone wants a favor. It goes into

the iPhone. A meeting? I just love meetings. No, I don't. I hate meetings. Gives us action items,

scribbled on a random paper. Our husband, wife, spousal equivalent, or polyamorous family unit calls and asks us to bring home some milk.

That goes on a sticky note next to the other dozen sticky notes.

Soon tasks are coming out of our ears.

We're so stressed at the chaos we had another item.

Organize task list.

To do that, you need two things.

A place to put your to-do's the instant they arise,

and somewhere central to collect them all. Your traveling to-do collector must be portable and

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