Professional Etiquette

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# Professional Etiquette
## Tips for Staying Organized
### Ian McCarthy, Emory University
### Economics PhD Professionalism Workshop

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# Have a system

- **Must** have some way to keep track of your projects and your many obligations
- Increasingly important as an assistant professor (teaching, service, research, life)
- No single system works for all people

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# Old school or digital

- Writing things down helps, so good 'ole pen and paper is hard to beat if you can keep it organized. Try a journaling method (e.g., bullet journals) if this is your jam.
- I prefer always having my lists and "journals" available at all times, which just isn't feasible for me on paper.

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# Main considerations

- Project management/tracking
- Calendar
- To-do list

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# My system

- Project organization with digital notebooks (OneNote)
- Calendar management with different calendar types (Google Calendar synced with Outlook Calendar)
- Student sign-ups with "youcanbook.me", which syncs with my calendars
- Simple to-do list that I can quickly edit and organize (Google Keep)
- Use email inbox as to-do list (only move or delete after I've acted on it)

It is very rare that I drop the ball without knowing it.

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# Other considerations

- Block out time for yourself (manually in the calendar, forced time in extensions like [freedom](https://freedom.to/))
- If you are easily drawn to social media, I've heard good things about [freedom](https://freedom.to/)
- Detailed project management software, like [OmniFocus](https://www.omnigroup.com/omnifocus/web/?pk_vid=81b024e9ccba5d3816087347588d523f).

My take: I'm not a huge fan of detailed project management software because it becomes a lot of trouble to update.