The Design Of Business Tasks

Christopher Murphy tackles the tricky topic of task management in an increasingly busy age.

As knowledge workers toiling at the digital coalface, we regularly find ourselves managing multiple tasks at once. All too often those tasks add up, rendering it hard to focus and get things done.

Establishing a task management – or to-do – system can make all the difference. Your system might be analogue or digital but, regardless, it’s important to have one.

One approach on the analogue side of the equation is the Bullet Journal (bulletjournal.com), which bills itself as: “The analogue system for the digital age.” Ryder Carroll, creator of the Bullet Journal method, even has a book offering the tantalising prospect that you can “track the past, order the present and design the future”.