Keeping yourself Organised Part 1: Notes

I have to admit, whilst in some areas I’m pretty organised there’s other that I’m not. I’ve been doing a lot of researching & fine tuning lately to streamline as much of my work as possible. There’s lots & lots of things you can do to organise your Affiliate Marketing Campaigns & also your day in general.

The aim of this series of posts is to pass on some of the tricks I’ve learned. So without further ado here’s the first.

As an Affiliate, the single biggest thing that frustrates me & clutters up my desktop, is leaving notes everywhere. Whether it’s in notepad, word or excel, saving webpages of interest or just jotting down random things.

That is until someone pointed me towards Evernote. This awesome free program allows you to keep all your notes in one space, categorised & also in order of date. A godsend for any Affiliate Marketer.

Above is a quick example of how you can set up the Category system.

The interface allows for unendless notes under each category or sub category. You can scroll through & read all the notes you’ve made on a certain date or use the smartsearch feature to find particular keywords quickly.

Moving to evernote made a huge difference to my productivity, here’s some of the stuff I use it for:

Todo Lists: I write down all the stuff I need to do or stuff I can think of, this helps me structure my day in a way that is more productive.

Website Lists: I like to make lists of websites, evernote is really handy for this. For example I’ll always try to organise Social Media networks by niche.

Ideas Pad: I get random ideas all the time, I have a section that allowsme to jot things down. I can come back to them at any time without having to search around for the random txt file I’d usually keep ideas in.

Source Code: This option allows me to copy parts of templates, html or php easily & store them for future use.

Universal Clipping: This is quite cool, the clipping plugin fires straight into Word, Excel & Firefox. It allows you to instantly transfer a particular page into evernote to store for future reference. Awesome for storing pages to read later when you don’t have a net connection.

Note Flagging: I use this feature to flag the notes of high importance that I really need to get back to asap.

Blog Posts: And last but not least I created the idea for this blog post right in Evernote, then just copied & pasted it into the Wordpress editor.

There you have it, be gone with all the notepad, pdf & word file cluttering your desktop. The program runs nicely in your system tray & sits quietly out of the way until you need it.

Get onto this simple, easy to use program & start getting organised