
Organise: The process of deciding what to do with each input and it’s priority To give you a quick high level summary:Ĭapture and collect: The process of gathering up all inputs that you receive, be it e-mails, ideas, text messages, letters, notes from meeting, anything that comes in that you need to deal with The productivity ninja explores the CORD method:Īllcott explores the concept of setting up systems that allow you to follow this model and organize your life and your work.

I love this concept and OneNote for me has become my second brain. In the Productivity Ninja, Allcott talks about not relying on your brain to remember everything you have to do but creating a second brain that does all that for you. In order to try and understand OneNote in more detail I watched a few instructional videos on YouTube, got the basic idea and then got to work setting it up for myself and now I truly LOVE IT! I am not sure how I managed without it before! It’s one of those things were I really changed the way I operated after learning about it.Īfter reading the Productivity Ninja, I was really inspired by some of the concepts and I made some significant changes to how I approach things that have had an incredibly positive impact.

These two things together helped me to develop a system that I now use to manage my entire life and enable me to be much more productive than I was previously. More by Mel Johnson How you can develop a second brain using Microsoft OneNoteĪ good friend of mine recommended Microsoft OneNote to me as a way to organise myself and at a similar time another friend recommended I read the book Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott .
