About the Course: How I Organize my Digital Life and Business Files

I’ll be teaching an online course about how I organize my digital life with Google tools (google drive, docs, spreadsheets, chrome, calendar).

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Here are some background thoughts in preparation.

The way I think about organizing my information is a hierarchy:

Framework > Courses/Books > Content > Research

The Framework is my overall philosophy about my work. (I’ve also taught an online course about How To Create Frameworks.)

Underneath the Framework is my series of courses/books that detail parts of my framework.

And my courses or books is the resting place for my best content.

The process of creating Content, then, spurs productive research. (This is different from research that’s done for personal curiosity or hobbies.)

Everything is in the Cloud

All of my information is stored online: documents and spreadsheets in Google, my tasks in Todoist, and some content in private Facebook client groups.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve had computers crash on me several times. I’ve lost files due to crashes. Many clients have experienced this too.

Yet, I’ve never lost a single file that I put into Google Drive. Increasingly, putting files in “the cloud” (online) is more…