MeisterNote: 4 Tips for Simple Self Management

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When it comes to getting the most out of your professional and personal lives, self management is perhaps the most important skill you need to learn to keep things organized. Structured note taking, aided by the right tool, can help you improve your self-management skills and fulfil your potential: at work and in life. In this post, we’ll look at the importance of self management and explore how MeisterNote’s features for personal note taking can help you master this viral skill. 

MeisterNote: 4 Tips for Simple Self Management

We’re looking into the fascinating topic of note taking and documentation software as part of the official launch for our latest product: MeisterNote. This outstanding collaborative writing app is the latest offering in the Meister Suite – a beautiful, intuitive group of products that help you improve personal and team productivity. We’re helping people everywhere get more out of their work: find out how you can reap the benefits too on the official MeisterNote website.

According to the leadership development platform BetterUp, self-management is defined as our ability to manage our behaviors, thoughts, and emotions in a conscious and productive way. With more demands on our time, and more stress factors in the world around us than ever before, increasing numbers of people are turning to technology to help them navigate their daily lives and maximize their personal potential. With MeisterNote, we’ve added a valuable tool to the rapidly-evolving ecosystem of self management software. Read on to learn more about MeisterNote and how it can help you in your own self management process.

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An Evolving World 

When did you get your first smartphone? For most people, the answer is some time between 2009 and 2013 – in fact statistics show that over 2.5 billion smartphones were shipped during this time. Although it feels like ancient history now, at the time you’d have been forgiven for thinking that the answer to effective self management had already arrived. The ability to carry your entire life on a 6-inch slab should, in theory, have meant that self management issues were a thing of the past.

Sadly, things are not that simple. While smartphones, laptops and other devices are our constant companions, forgetfulness still causes us to struggle with the simplest of daily tasks. The fact that 85 percent of US adults now own a smartphone has not turned the nation’s population into hyper-organized productivity freaks. In many ways, the opposite is true: the need for self management in the age of digital technology is greater than ever, potentially because:

  • Our devices and tools are too full and the internet is too big, meaning we spend endless time searching for information.
  • The tools we use have too many features, which should make daily life easier, but actually make it more complicated.
  • Many of the tools we use can’t be personalized to our needs, or they may present information in a confusing way.

We can’t turn back the clock when it comes to technology. Our internet-capable devices are here now and they’re here to stay. However, everyone has the opportunity to take back control of their own time by using intelligent, intuitive software that helps them get more value out of their time. In other words, the time has come to look more closely at the fascinating topic of self management tools.

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The Benefits of an Effective Self Management Tool

Deciding you’d like to use a self management tool is already a positive step in the right direction. When it comes to selecting the right tool to use, you should first consider what you want to achieve. Ideally, your tool should help you to achieve some or all of the improvements listed below.

Reduced Stress

Do you ever get the feeling that the more things you have to do, the less productive you actually feel? Stress, particularly anxiety about missing deadlines or that sinking feeling when tasks are just building up, can be a huge factor in this phenomenon. Essentially, because you spend so much time worrying about all the other things you have to do, you lose focus on the job at hand, which in turn reduces efficiency.

Fortunately, self management tools like MeisterNote provide a reasonably simple solution to the issue: note taking. The key benefit of this is that it helps us to structure thoughts. Writing down your ideas can bring clarity to a variety of daily processes, which in turn reduces stress. Make a list, then tackle the activities in front of you one at a time.

Better Focus and Organization

Using a self management tool, even for something as simple as note taking, is key to improving your organizational skills. By determining the key points of a conversation to remember or research, or by using notes to break down complex or broad topics, you’ll become more efficient when dealing with large amounts of information.

It also develops another skill: active listening. Taking notes engages your mind with what you hear, keeping your body alert and helping to mitigate feelings of drowsiness or distraction. When you look back over what you’ve written down, keeping all your notes in a single location stops you losing track of information, which may otherwise be scattered across emails, text messages or sticky notes.

Improved Information Retention

A system of structured personal note taking gives you the opportunity to highlight key points and details that might otherwise slip your mind. Keeping these points in an accessible location is key to boosting your productivity, both at work and at home.

How you structure your notes is key to your success with your self management tool. It might help you to use to-do lists to organize your day, or to simply jot down notes on different topics as you go. Remember, active learning increases the probability of accurate recall, so it can never be a bad idea to keep a record of what you’re discussing.

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Is MeisterNote a Self Management Tool?

Yes! The first step to effective self management is visualizing the path ahead. Once you have a clear idea of the things you want to accomplish on a daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly basis, you can begin plotting the steps toward your destination. 

Find out more about using MeisterNote as a self management tool on our website.

When it comes to noting down, formatting, structuring and reviewing your ideas, MeisterNote can be an incredibly useful aid. Even in the free Basic Plan, MeisterNote is a simple, intuitive tool that can help you create attractive, organized and multiplatform personal notes in “single-player mode“. For example, you could use MeisterNote for any of the following self management activities:

  • Capturing notes from meetings and conversation, then organizing them for future reference.
  • Collating and accomplishing to-do lists each day or week.
  • Using the tool as a standard writing app to create:
  • Notes
  • Long-form text
  • Self-improvement guides.

See the full range of functionality in MeisterNote on our features page.

Clarity is key to an effective self management routine. MeisterNote’s ease of use keeps the focus away from the tool and on your plans. You’ll also notice a significant improvement in your personal organization if you keep all your notes in one place. No more rummaging through apps to locate those vital details: just a single, streamlined tool where you can file everything that’s important.

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4 Tips for Effective Self Management with MeisterNote

Once you’ve decided to use MeisterNote as your self management tool, the next thing you need to do is customize it to fit your needs exactly. MeisterNote’s focus on flexibility means that you can do this both before you start writing, using note templates, or by customizing your content blocks after you’ve created them. 

The following four tips will help you transform MeisterNote into the perfect self management tool and start making effective personal notes. 

1. Get Organized

When it comes to self management, you should start as you mean to go on. If your goal is to become more conscientious and organized, you should initiate this process by creating a basic filing system for your notes. Doing this will help you put your content in the right place and make information easier to find whenever you need it. 

Key MeisterNote Feature: Workspaces

Workspaces are where your notes live. Before you start collecting notes, set up a few workspaces, main notes and sub-notes so that you can organize any new content quickly. Each workspace you create is visible from your dashboard – the first screen you see when you open MeisterNote. You can also organize multiple workspaces into workspace groups, if you have a lot of them.

Learn more about workspaces in the MeisterNote help center.

2. Just Start Writing

Your first note is created for you in MeisterNote automatically. Simply start typing to get started! While you’re writing, try out a few content blocks and get to grips with MeisterNote’s intuitive, beautiful editor. It’ll only take you a couple of minutes to learn the basics, and there are endless styles and formats to explore once you’ve got the hang of it.

Key MeisterNote Feature: No-Distraction Writing

MeisterNote’s attractive, distraction-free writing mode allows you to enhance productivity and get more done: a pure, uninterrupted writing experience. You can even hide the sidebars and other interface elements to focus solely on your notes. It might also be a good idea to learn how to use keyboard shortcuts – that way you’ll never have to take your fingers away from the keyboard again! 

Learn how to use keyboard shortcuts in our help center.

3. Customize the Editor and Your Notes

When you’re using MeisterNote for self management, your personal notes should be exactly that: unique to you. MeisterNote makes it extremely easy to customize your self management process precisely to your unique personal style. With a few quick clicks, your brand new tool will feel like home in no time.

Key MeisterNote Feature: Note Customization

You can choose note covers and icons to make your notes stand out and to help you recognize their content quickly. Additionally, you can switch between themes and fonts in your preferences menu to find the style that’s perfect for you. Remember: note covers and icons are visible to everyone with access to the note (if you share it). Theme and font settings can be seen only by you.

4. Bring Everything You Need to One Place

When you start using MeisterNote, you’ll find it is incredibly easy to create attractive personal notes. However, a picture can often say a thousand words, and a video a thousand pictures. Go for it! Using MeisterNote, you can integrate endless different content types into your notes, making them beautiful, more organized and easier to use.

Check out the full range of content block styles in our help center.

Key MeisterNote Feature: File Embeds

You can easily embed different types of media into your note – PDFs, videos and images, etc. – to break up longer passages of text and make your onboarding guide easier to use. Simply select the content type from the menu and choose the file you want to attach. 

Visual learner? Embed mind maps into your notes using MeisterNote’s powerful integration with the award-winning MindMeister.

Embrace the Improvement

You’ve got the tool… now it’s up to you! Your journey towards effective self management is about to get a whole lot easier with the help of MeisterNote. We hope you’ll soon be able to tell us all about the improvements in information retention, focus and organization thanks to a structured method of linear note taking. 

Remember, if you do get stuck, don’t worry. Our help center, onboarding video and best practices blog are here to help you every step of the way. 

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