Thank you for sharing your tools, I did not know them and these are very interesting! Time management and software that helps get organized without complicating your life - these are some of my pet peeves.
Yesterday I came across a little piece of software that follows this groove - it´s a Chrome plugin called "Momentum". It pops up a window every time you open a new browser tab, which gives you the time of day, a nice image, a motivational quote and "the one thing" you have to achieve that day. I do tend to fall into endless pits of internet browsing, so this really helps to refocus. Pity it does not exist for Safari and IE too....
I am a thoroughly digital person - but my organizer is stubbornly on paper. I use one with rings, so I can swap out the agenda section every year and keep everything else (idea dumps, overarching goals, password lists, etc...) unchanged. The little black book lives and breathes with me - I spend some time every Sunday to lay out the to-do lists for the whole week. Passionplanner looks very nice (I also love motivational quotes!), but the fact that it is hard bound would be a no-go for me. It would be awesome if they did a "cartridge" format (maybe printing it out is the solution!)
As software goes, I am a big fan of Podio. I started using it when I had a team and had to track some 80-120 concurrent projects. It is designed for big creative teams, but it can be used also by single individuals (and then it is free of charge!). It is basically a completely customizeable online database. It starts out as an empty shell and looks like nothing, but when you start shaping it it reveals this great balance of simplicity and focus, so that it can be exactly what you need and nothing more. Now that I am all alone I use it to record contacts and leads, keep track of expenses, and manage all sorts of lists (like "artists I love"). It is not intended for time management (though it has some of that, it is very basic), it is more like an information and action-tracker.
