I'll admit that I'm not always the best at keeping organized. I try hard but sometimes things get out of hand. So over the past little bit I've been working on tricks to help me out. During school I use a lovely whiteboard calendar to keep track of when papers or assignments are due and when midterms and exams are, and last year I began to add blogging commitments to the calendar when I realized I was taking on a lot more than I had anticipated. Over the summer I stopped using the whiteboard and slowly but surely got totally off track.
School is starting up again so I'll head back to my trusty whiteboard, but now that blogging has become even more intense for me and I'm taking on a lot more with it, I'm worried that my little board won't do the trick. So since I've made a commitment to myself and to you, my wonderful readers, to get back on track, I need to find something to keep myself organized on the blogging front.
This is where you guys come in. I want to know: how do you keep organized? Do you have a calendar or whiteboard or agenda specifically dedicated to blogging? And what do you keep track of? Just things like blog tour dates and author posts, or everything down to ARC release dates and possible discussion post dates? I'm really going to try to be the best blogger I can be and getting organized is a huge part of that. So if you guys are willing, please share your tricks and secrets as to how you stay organized with everything that goes on in the bloggy world.
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Confessions of a Homeschooler has great blogging calendars. I printed out the ones for the rest of 2013 and they are working out really well! Just google "confessions of a homeschooler" and you should find her blog and at the top is a link to all her planners. Good luck getting organized! :)
ReplyDeleteOh, that sounds really handy! I'll definitely have to take a look at those calendars, especially since I'm already used to using a calendar format. Great, thanks so much! :)
DeleteI use iCal, my calendar app. Discussions and reviews are written in blue; memes are in green, so I make sure I have a proper balance. All posts are prefaced with "uw" for unwritten and are only changed from unwritten to written once they are COMPLETELY finished (written, formatted, scheduled). ARCs I keep track of using my Notes app. I really should do a better job, because I never remember to email publishers my reviews. (I usually just post them to NetGalley and/or Edelweiss.)
ReplyDeleteWow, Shae. Sounds like you're really on the ball! I'll have to see what the iCal app is like because being able to colour code and whatnot is so handy, but I didn't know you could do that in an app. I should have figured there'd be an app for that ;) Thank you!!
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