Is Better Task Management on Your To-Do List?
By David H. Freeman, contributing editor at Inc. magazine
Like many small-business owners, Keith Goldstein often has so much on his plate that it’s hard to keep track of it all. So Mr. Goldstein, who owns 60-employee Everest Waterproofing and Restoration in San Francisco, does what most people do to remember what needs to get done: He writes it down on a “to-do” list. Sometimes he scribbles a list in a notebook, but he prefers to type it into his iPad, whence it’s zipped by app to his e-mail. “I use my inbox as my real to-do list,” he said. “If a note isn’t an action item I move it out of the inbox, so whatever is in there is about something I need to get done.”