Become More Productive by Defining Your Working Style

Without the pressure of the traditional manager or boss, it can be hard to know what to do next to keep all your projects on track and moving forward. That's why it's important to design processes and to-do systems that work for you.

For those that need a little help organizing their organizational needs (ha!), Thoughtboxes offers a clean, aesthetically pleasing way for even the most right-brained individual to map out projects and ideas. Less structured than the traditional to-do list, but more organized than ideas scribbled in a Moleskine, Thoughtboxes evolves to-do lists into to-do boxes. It lets you group related items to form a clean flow of information and allows you to see large projects through to the end. Think of it as a giant e-bulletin board filled with everything you're working on: the gorgeous design scheme is just an added perk.

If you're the type who feels hindered by too much advance planning, or whose creativity in-the-moment makes traditional to-do lists ineffective, we have a suggestion: iDoneThis. This simple tool uses self-reflection to keep you honest about your work, and hopefully more motivated as a result. Each day you receive a blank email: simply reply to it with the day's achievements, your thoughts, or anything else you'd like recorded.

All of your entries are stored on a calendar for you to peruse whenever you'd like. Since great ideas have a tendency of appearing at the end of a trying project, it could finally become the journal you've never found the time to keep.

Of course, these tools are not mutually exclusive, and some combination of spontaneity, planning and evaluation is probably the magic recipe for getting things done. Think of these tools as your ingredients.

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