Blog: Organize It

Summer 2006, like millions of others I too fell into the Getting Things Done trap. I don’t know what it is that makes this system such a draw. Maybe I just wanted to have a black belt in something and productivity seemed easy enough. Since then I have pretty much staturated myself in blogs upon blogs of GTD information. However, eventually it just became too much and I had to purge my feed reader. I managed to keep some of the standards like 43Folders and Lifehacker, but there was one lesser known blog that I just couldn’t get rid of, Organize It. Soon you will understand why.

Over View

Organize It is not your typical GTD blog. In fact, it is not really (see: technically) a GTD blog at all. No, instead of pointing at the trendy new hacks and going nuts over productivity p0rn, Organize It offers a simple service to all its readers, good tips and tricks for getting your life organized. Yes, some times that means implementing GTD and its various phases, but it also mean other things like learning how to delegate and getting rid of clutter. This is why I can’t live without Organize It. There is a lot more to life than the GTD system (GASP!), and Organize It really fills the void opened up by other sites. Organize It gives advice on “organized living through life hacks and GTD”, but it is the life hacks that has brought it the success it has earned recently and for good reason.

The Man Behind the Magic

The author of Organize It is James, a 23-year-old UK native. As a fan of the GTD magic James wanted to move from reading about GTD to sharing his own ideas, Organize It is the spawn of that plan.

“Organize IT was really my first proper attempt at a blog and as I got more into lifehacking, GTD, etc I found I enjoyed writing about it, sharing my own thoughts and developing my own ideas on the subject,” said James.

James’ site was “discovered” when his Clutter 101 series was featured on Lifehack.org, and his site accelerated to the top 10 on the popular bookmarking website, del.icio.us.

“[Clutter 101] continues to send lots of hits my way. Clearly de-cluttering their homes is a big deal for people,” muses James.

As far as other projects, James has two other sites he is currently working on besides Organize It. He has a clever Nintendo Wii/gaming blog, as well as the site Creating Worlds, which is best explained on the site itself.

The Content

Organize It has some of the best general life advice that I have seen on any other site of this type. There are posts on all sorts of different subjects pertaining to organization in many key areas of life. For example, the site offers a series on “getting creative” where it displays the importance of things like locations and having the right tools in the creative process.

“I try to position Organize IT so that it offers precise, actionable advice regarding all the key areas of life, such as career, finances and personal-growth,” said James.”

Additionally, this site offers posts in categories from inspiration to health. Truly the advice and tips offered on this site, whatever the category, can help you to improve your own life. I have follow many of the suggestions this site has offered and continue to see real results. This guy just has ideas that work, plain and simple. If you are interested in reliable advice which you just can’t find anywhere else then you really need to keep an eye on Organize It.

Site Design

The design of Organize It falls right in line for a blog with its purpose. The site itself is nothing super fantastic which is great because it shoves the content out at the reader. The content of this site is its best quality, and what I like about the design is that it doesn’t try to distract you. Trust me, for a guy who needs GTD to stay focused, it is important to me that I don’t have any more distractions in life when I am trying to learn how to live without them!

The site is easy to navigate with its two panel design. On the right hand site is everything you need to get around easily enough and all the different elements are placed perfectly so that one can find what they need. Unfortunately, a block of text ads divides a lot of those elements, but I understand that income is an important part of independent blogging so I can’t jeer too much.

Check it out

CLICK! I promise you won’t be disappointed. This site is great, really. GTD guru, maybe not, but certainly one of the smartest blogs out there that isn’t getting the attention it deserves.

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