My plan is to use a triumvirate of task management software: OmniFocus, OmniPlan and a Desktop Task Timer.
This might sound complicated, but there’s more to making money online than having a good idea, buying the domain and setting up a wordpress (something I tend to do far too often). I need to discipline myself into my projects and planning out them and tracking progress is necessary.
OmniFocus is a great tool – especially for tracking private ad sales (I’ll make a post about this later). Basically you give it a deadline (and sometimes startdate), assign a task to a project, give it a context, perhaps make sub tasks and let it roll. It’s great for getting all the little nags off your mind and into a place where you can forget about them because you know when you need to deal with them it will inform you. That’s effectively the principle of ‘Getting Things Done’ or GTD. A lot of the stuff written about it is just the standard self-improvement bollocks, but the basic concept is a great one: forget your worries by putting them into a system that will only inform you about them when you need to deal with them and have the ability to do so.
The task of the Desktop Task Timer is basically to record how long I spend working on each project to give me an idea of what is most worthwhile doing and to see if I’ve been slacking.
OmniPlan is new on me. I bought it using educational discount just before leaving uni knowing that I’d need it. I need to decide one project to start using it with and go, but first I’ll need to brush up on how it use it effectively.