Phone Logs - Get rid of them
I run across numerous people who have created and are still clinging dependently on a "phone log" of some sort. If you are one of them, you should nix it.
Actually, you should just blend it into your "notes" category for in-coming ideas, input, and information.
Come on--if you need a "phone log", then you need a "they-stopped-me-in-the-hall log" and an "oh-yeah-I-just-remembered log". Can anybody tell me what's the difference?
You need to process every in-coming phone call just like anything else that comes into your psyche or your in-basket--What is this? What's the next action? How long will it take? etc.
Phone logs usually represent an immature organization system--that somehow we should organize in-coming as its in-coming, instead of focusing on organizing the result of equally processing all of our in-coming, no matter what the source.
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