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What are you using as a task manager and as a people manager?

What’s your tool or method for your daily and then more open tasks? How do you stay on top of everything at work and at home? A program, pen and paper, just your head like Aristotle? How do you keep up with your work contacts and friends? I feel this is tasks related as one must remember to keep up with people as well but these tasks rarely enter task manager spaces.

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