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I have found an interesting post at Behance Magazine that I’d like to share with you today: Tip: 10 Realizations For Productivity & Making Ideas Happen from Behance Magazine

Our years of research have caused us to question the status quo of everyday project management:

* What if compulsive filing yields little benefit?
* What if priority matters more than context?
* What if the success of every project (and life) ultimately comes down to organizing actions you must take?
* What if the design of the method we use for productivity influences our psychology for getting stuff done?

These are some very important questions, with nuggets of wisdom that I have been considering myself for a while now. As I started a new full-time job in July I have been working very hard to make all of my projects successes but I have had to consider priority over context on several occasions - such as working on day-job tasks and planning at home rather than blogging or working on the new website projects.

I have talked about the design of the productivity system influencing your psychological state many times and I know that I have helped a few of you “personalize” your GTD and other systems.

It looks like Behance is working on a new service for managing productivity online, one that takes into account such realizations as:

Questions such as these have led our team to some very important realizations:

1. Actions should be kept separate from email.
Email can kill productivity, because the actions you must take are buried in regular communication. An inbox full of email - even well-filed emails - still forces you to dig through every communication to find the hidden task. Tasks to be completed, or “Action Steps,” should have a management system of their own.

2. People should NOT share whole projects, just relevant items within projects.
Until now, all project management systems were made up of projects that were shared among different people. However, the way people really THINK about their work is more personal: we define our projects in our own terms - and it is rare that 100% of any project is relevant to all involved. Rather than share entire projects, we now have the technology to share just the relevant components of projects - action steps, reference items, discussions, milestones - and the recipient can then organize these components in a way that makes sense for his/her system.

Read the whole post [Tip: 10 Realizations For Productivity & Making Ideas Happen from Behance Magazine] for more background on these insights. (Not an affiliate link, I have not heard anything else about the new product)