Mastering Organization Vol 1: Information Inboxes

A Game Changing Inbox-Based System to Overhaul Your Unorganized Digital and Physical Information Organization Systems.

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Mastering Organization Vol 1: Information Inboxes
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2.5 hours
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Mar 2022
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What you will learn

Organize all their digital files into a single inbox based system

Consistently maintain Inbox Zero with minimal effort

Set themselves up to batch process all organizational tasks instead of doing it in the middle of another project

Keep all their physical information, like books, mail, magazines, notebooks and more properly organized

Description

Eventually every life hacker realizes that productivity is about systems. 

The real "hack" is not a single app or a cool shortcut.

It's an elegant system that allows you to get more done in less time because it reduces the amount of time it takes to stay organized and get things done.

What isn't often talked about in productivity circles is the cost of making decisions.

It's easy to talk about saving time with this app or that plugin.

But what about all those friction points between apps, between tasks, that rob you of hours every day, a minute here, a minute there?

Those are what a system is designed to solve. 

The key to managing your information for productivity is reducing the decisions you have to make, and how long it takes to make them.

The way this course solves the problem is that you no longer have to make hard decisions about where to put new pieces of information.

Information.

What am I talking about?

Physical information is mail. It's stuff you print out. It's receipts. Packing slips. Magazines and books. Even golf score cards. A moleskine notebook or a loose leaf journal. Sticky notes and scraps of paper. Business cards.

Then there is Digital Information.

This is the real killer for a lot of people.

There is information that other people create: Emails. Web sites, articles, blog posts, forum threads (and QA sites/threads). There's videos and audios and PDFs that you download or stream. There's bookmarks and random open tabs. There's Word docs and Spreadsheets and PowerPoint files. 

Then there's information you create. Photos and screenshots from your phone. And videos. And voice memos. And maybe photos and videos from your DSLR. Notes-to-self in your phone. Papers that you scan into the computer.

You have a perfect storm of information overload coming at you everyday. 

And it probably feels like there is no way to stop it.

This system is the way. 

For each type of information, whether physical or digital, has an inbox. Each room where you do office work or learning has an inbox, a storage area and an outbox. You will learn how to create "Pipelines" for certain types of information.

You'll learn how to manage the backup of all your information in all your digital inboxes. Automatically.

The title of this  course says Volume 1. Why?

Because there is a course directly related to this course that comes next, in Volume 2. 

Volume two shows you how to batch process each of these inboxes. It shows you how on a daily (email), weekly (web pages) or monthly (files, photos, videos) basis you can batch process the contents of each of your digital and physical inboxes.

Batch processing vastly improves your productivity because you reduce the amount of task switching you do.

Volume two shows you how to do batch processing and gives you a full "Life System" that will teach you where to store all your information for long term storage, once you move it out of the inbox. 

The Life System categories are 1. Professional, 2. Personal, 3. Relationships, and 4. Health. The full system contains hundreds of sub folders and is 3-4 folders deep in most cases. You will get the full folder structure as a zip file in Volume 2 as well as a walkthrough of how to use the system. 

However, remember this ISN'T part of this course. This course is just about setting up all your inboxes, which is a prerequisite for Volume 2. 

Just this first step of setting up the inboxes will take you several hours to complete once you have watched all the videos, and to implement Volume 2 will take even longer. Because of the amount of information and time required to implement these have been split up into two volumes.

Content

Introduction

Introduction

Digital Inboxes

Web Pages
OneNote Inboxes
Files Downloaded
Screen Capture Walkthrough of Digital Files inbox System
Email Inboxes
Photo, Video and Audio Inboxes
Random Idea Inboxes

Physical File Inboxes

Introduction
Mail, Newspapers and Magazines
Printed Files and Files to Scan
Books and Discs
Misc Paper
Current Papers
Download the Inbox Folder Template Here

Reviews

Aur
January 2, 2021
Great course. Well organized with time spent going over the specifics needed to stay organized in a busy world. I have always used the Year-Month-Day naming conventions for filing as it was intuitive for me but realize that most people dont get it so was happy to see this featured on here. I will be able to implement most of this into my system so extremely excited and happy with this course.
Tim
August 7, 2020
Very good. I particularly like the common approach to handling both physical and digital information. Well done. I look forward to vol. 2.
Nancy
September 16, 2018
I was looking to organize objects and paper rather than synthesize information for research. If I ever write a book this might be useful, but right now I'm just trying to run my real estate investment business better and classify and place the voluminous paper documents (such as settlement sheets) where they are out of the way but I can find them when I need them. Not getting that so far, but haven't given up.
Roxy
April 12, 2018
Sadly, this course is no better than the other one I purchased from this presenter. It's very basic, and he seems stuck on his one way of doing things. He makes it unnecessarily complex, and I can see why he says people give up on keeping organized. There are much easier ways to keep organized than this archaic "inbox" methodology. The presentation itself is also very boring, he's very monotone as well. I see Mr. Kenny has posted an incorrect statement regarding my reference to his other course. I was referring to the Master Planning course, not the Adulting course. The Adulting course is actually for my grandchildren, just signed up for under my account. It would seem he was commenting on my negative review so as to suggest that course implied I am less than an adult. I assure you, I am an adult with grandchildren, quite capable of reviewing a Udemy course. Other courses I have taken (Goal-setting, Forex, etc) have been phenomenal and gotten 5-star reviews from me. Sadly, Mr. Kenny's course is nowhere near that quality.
Chantel
February 24, 2018
Excellent course for people who love organizing and systems. I usually need to improve on a system someone else created but so far this one is perfect for all my information needs. I'm looking forward to the rest of the course volumes!
Stephanie
May 11, 2017
I have bought 5 courses from this particular instructor, all are excellent and are already helping me with my current projects and goals-both professional and personal. Well worth it!
Paul
July 28, 2016
Several very valuable ideas for organizing "stuff".....maybe, for the first time in my life, I'm going to get organized!!!
Anne
June 15, 2016
Finally some actionable advice for information overload! I really enjoy the pen and paper presentations too. Ready to get myself organized and all that data all sorted. What's the use of saving everything if you can't ever find it again? This course is right on target!
Oran
May 11, 2016
This is a fundamentally important topic for anyone who wishes to organize and retain the information they spend valuable time gathering. Without a solid information storage and retrieval system, almost all learning is doomed to dissipate into the fog of forgetting. This course lays the foundation for your knowledge system, using information which cannot be found anywhere else. I eagerly await the next course, which completes this novel system.

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