Living in a tool is the worst way to work

I've spoken about having an unpaid assistant when it comes to having a task manager.
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So effectively you put your tasks in, make sure you date everything, absolutely everything,
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99% of things, and then it will tell you what to do, like an assistant will tell you that you
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have an appointment, the task manager will tell you that you have something to do.
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Now with project management tools it's a bit different because if you're a project manager
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you generally have to live inside the tool to get any work done, to tell the other team members
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what they need to do. The problem comes when you're a small team and you are or you are an
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individual like me, you don't want to be living in the tool because that's detrimental to your work,
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the actual work that you need to do. So for instance if you're working with a client,
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you want to work with the client, not think about what you're doing in that tool, oh have I done
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that, oh have I done that. Yes tasks within project management tools do have due dates and
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alarms and notifications, but there's a difference between having a notification for something that
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you need to do there and then, and having to be living inside that tool and not getting your work
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done. Now with Basecamp, which is obviously the tool that I use and consult and collaborate with,
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has the ability to make sure that everything is in one place so you don't have to go anywhere
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else to figure other stuff out. Because I've seen other project management tools, other task managers
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and so on, where you have to actually live in it. With Basecamp you can look in it, figure out what
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you need to do and then go and do the work. With other project management tools and some task
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managers in fact, effectively you're living inside your notifications, your task list I should say,
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not notifications, your task list to make sure everything is done. Because it's set in such a
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way where, they're usually set in such a way where you have to look in multiple places,
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click multiple times to do certain things. And as I say, keep it simple and that's why I use
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Basecamp because it's so simple that I don't have to live in it. I can go out and live outside
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and then do the work, go back to Basecamp, see what I need to do, then do the actual work,
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rather than again living inside the tool. Because it doesn't help my work if I'm all over the place
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and I'm sure it doesn't help you either. If you need help with Basecamp let me know, there'll be
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a link below depending on where you're watching this. If you receive this via email just reply
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to the email. As always keep it simple and I'll see you in the next one. Ciao.
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