Joe Leondike

6 hours ago, Shane D. said:

Hi there,

Thank you to everyone who participated in our Home Dashboard Contest! We were so impressed and inspired by the creative dashboards you all built to organize your information and maximize productivity!  

Our panel of judges included Ian, our CEO, and representatives from Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Design.  We had a blast going through your entries – and also some good healthy debates. (Talk about a tough decision!)

 

Here are our winners* (drum roll please!): 
 

Professor of productivity
 

• Joe Leondike: Just looking at your dashboard already makes us feel more productive! We love how you draw ideas from a few approaches from the Eisenhower method to Stacey Harmon’s system to really make it your own. This is the epitome of a straightforward, no-frills, get-things-done home dashboard.
  
  See Joe’s dashboard here!
  
   

Captain of creativity
 

• Sayre Ambrosio: This dashboard is creative on a number of levels! First, we love how visually creative it is - each of the distinct categories are paired with a perfectly matched visual. Additionally, we are inspired by how you set up a shared Evernote note to essentially have the functionality of a website for your community group. 
  
  See Sayre’s dashboard here!
  
   

Everything but the kitchen sink - It’s a tie! 
 

• TK0047: We love your unique take on a home dashboard and were impressed with how comprehensive it is for something that is clearly very important to you: your breadth of software tools. It’s cool that this dashboard makes Evernote the place where you start everything - whether you’re going somewhere within Evernote or to a destination outside.
  
  See TK0047’s dashboard here!
  
  
   
• Dandrade: This home dashboard is incredibly simple yet effectively organizes your most accessed content. We love that it is structured to separate work and personal as well as current tasks and reference material. It is simple and yet has everything you need to maximize productivity!
  
  See Dandrade’s dashboard here!

 

We think each one of these dashboards provides great inspiration for how Evernote can help make Evernoters more organized and more productive. 

A huge thank you to everyone for sharing their work and letting us all see the breadth of ways in which Evernote can be used.  We hope folks are inspired and managed to learn more than a few nuggets from each other.

 

Happy holidays and cheers to making 2020 your most productive year ever!

 

* Contingent on successful verification of US residency 

 

 

 

Thank you so very much. I am humbled by all the amazing work everyone is doing. I learned a lot from how others are using Evernote. Keep up the great work. 

On 12/4/2019 at 10:55 AM, DTLow said:

I'm following up on the "side of Kanban"    
I know very little about Kanban
Can you explain how this applies to your home dashboard note?

>>Eisenhower method

I also use this priority method - with two tags; Urgent, Important
I don't use a matrix grid.  My task list is sorted by start date    
- Urgent/Important tasks are colour coded

Kanban is a system of tracking from ‘waiting for’ to ‘doing’ to ‘completed’. So many times I will place an item on my cue as a waiting for. That way I can determine the scope of the project before Putting it into a category. Only the. ‘doing’ is placed in the matrix. I hope picture here helps.  The 'To Do' is all of my pending actions that need to be accomplished.  The 'Doing' category is where I apply the Urgent/Important categories.  'Done' is just a list of those items that show me what projects I have completed or worked on.  

Sometimes, one part of project can't be started until a different part is completed.  

An example is my spring 2020 semester. Those I currently have as waiting, in January it will become Important as I’m tracking each task/project that needs to be completed.  Eventually my doctorate will fall into the completed category. 
 

I hope this helps. 

1 hour ago, merman said:

The Eisenhower matrix is indeed a very clear template for a Dashboard note. But how does the 'Get focused' section work? Are these links, too? Or just a checklist to remind you of what to focus on?

They are a simple reminder of how to focus. A project has beginning and a defined end point. A process is on going with repeatable functions. For example completing my 2020 Federal Taxes will be a project. I need to capture all the required documents and finalize it. My monthly electric bill is an ongoing and a process for management. So they are handled differently. I hope this helps

Like most people people, I am juggling multiple aspects of my life; career, advancement, school, family, etc.  I have found the Eisenhower method helpful, with a twist.  I use it as my dashboard for GTD and add a side of Kanban.  That way I can see what is coming up and what has been done.  Linking between the notes is the glue to maintain my sanity.  Reminder dates allow me track what is due in the future.  I consider it a compilation of different methods to meet my demands.  

Below is the system I follow to keep current.  I did not create this system, that was from a podcast I heard from Stacey Harmon at https://www.harmonenterprises.com

Let me know what you think.

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