Productivity tools to help you manage your daily tasks.

One way or another, your productivity at home is going to be influenced by how efficiently you manage your time and your daily tasks.

You need to keep track of what is urgent and important. You also need to keep track of your jobs, time sheets, clients, prospects and other key contacts.

Over the years I have used a variety of tools to help me with my “to do” lists and contact lists.

For a while I depended on the tools that come packaged with Outlook.

I also tried ACT, back when it was a reasonable piece of software that actually worked.

I also used the FranklinCovey organizational tools for a while.

What do I use now? It is the simplest thing I ever tried. I signed up at Backpackit.com, pay $5 a month to get enough pages (the basic package is free) and then customize the pages to suit my needs. I have to-do pages, pages with contact information for my various clients. I use the calendar to manage my workload, and more. It’s very simple and suits me just fine.

And I think that is the key. There are plenty of different tools out there to help you manage your tasks, time sheets, contacts and more. It’s just a matter of finding the tool that matches your personality and work style the best.

But if you are serious about building a business at home, you do need to find a way to get organized. If you don’t, your productivity will suffer.