Time Management/Organizational Skills

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How is everyone with Time Management and Organizational Skills?

I have ALWAYS struggled with this. When I was in school I had to constantly be looking up due dates on the syllabus. I would write them down somewhere or write them in the calendar and then lose the calendar. When I was reading out of several books, I would leave them open and stacked on top of each other. If I closed them and put a bookmark and placed them on the shelf I would forget I had to read etc. At my last job, I had to keep outlook open all the time to remind me of things. Sometimes I open notepad to make to-do lists. But sometimes when I am away from the computer I forget to add things. I have an iPhone that I can access Tada (online to-do list) but I still sometimes forget to put things in there.

Is this an aspie trait?

How do you keep organized?

Yes, it is considered to be a trait commonly found among those with AS. I believe that it is related to executive functioning issues.

I'm terrible with scheduling. I always have been. I can remember big deadlines for things, but often the little details just completely drop my radar. I live and die by my eCalendar at work. If it doesn't get on there, there is no way I will remember that I have a meeting or appointment.

Mine seem to have gotten worse over the years. I'm not sure why that is.

I'm HORRIBLE with time and scheduling. I just follow my routine.

My organisation when I was young was bad to the EXTREME. People allways tell me to keep a diary, to-do lists, etc. Problem is, you have to remeber to put dates in the diary and put tasks on the list. Or even remember these things exist. :-S

My organisational skills are pretty terrible, it's always been a struggle to keep up with school work or remember things. People tell me to get to-do lists but they never work or I forget. At school I most often than never didn't have any pens with me or the right books, I couldn't meet most deadlines and doing the homework was a struggle because of getting distracted or procrastination. My room is often a complete mess (I have somehow managed to keep it clean since last Friday, it's a record!!)
The funny thing is about organisation is that I could line something up or set up a table and it looking like some lined up/symetrical master piece but anything that needs organising, like my life, then I'm crap.

I'm terrible at it. It's probably related to executive dysfunction. I made a thread about overcoming executive dysfunction, and there were a lot of helpful replies.

Link to thread.

I cannot survive without my diary, my whiteboard to scribble things onto (sort of like brainstorming my to-dos), putting calendar notes into my phone all the time... I have so many things that I use to help myself organize all the things I have to do. I'm able to remember big important things but smaller in-between things are really hard for me to keep up with. I have pretty much no sense of time and can never estimate how long it will/does take me to do anything. I also get absorbed in things too easily so I can easily spend too long on one insignificant detail within a greater project. Adding to the problem is a great struggle to make decisions. If I am presented with a list of chores to do or a list of activities all of equal importance, I can take hours to decide which one to do and can get very agitated and upset trying to make up my mind. Sometimes it helps when someone's there to pick randomly for me and then I'll at least have a starting point. Another problem is that I take too long to do anything that involves sensory stimulation, like doing noisy housework or eating or doing something that involves having to leave the house and go outside etc. so then I also lose time by taking too long to do things. A contributor to this slow-moving tendency is my clumsiness, because I will drop things and bump into things if I try to multitask or move about too quickly.

At school I always used to rely on other people telling me what was going on, what I was expected to do, etc. I was too absorbed in my own pastimes to take note of that stuff myself. Nowadays I have an iPod Touch that I use as a calender, but at the moment I don't really have any commitments anyway. I don't know how I'll cope in a real job (which I'm currently searching for), so I'll have to wait and see.