Organization and time management obsession

I've become obsessive about improving both my attention to detail and time management lately. To this end, I've been implementing several techniques and would be willing to share them as well as take some feedback from the world regarding the way you manage your time.

On time management

One of the tools I find myself using quite frequently is Reqall, a technological successor to Jott. It's geo-awareness and ability to update my calendar dynamically from my phone via voice -- as well as send reminders to others, has been a boon.

This, along with Google Calendar, has become the primary way at this time my personal life is managed; work collaborates using the ubiquitous Microsoft Outlook.

Several of my coworkers have started personal wikis where they store knowledge they need for doing things on a personal basis or for their home businesses. I'm creating a instance of TurnKey linux on my home vmware server for that purpose. Shortly, chrisfeyrer.com will be migrated to VMWare so that I can use that desktop for multiple purposes; not just hosting this site, which will allow me this flexibility.
Sites like Lifehacker also give valuable insight into how these things can be accomplished.

On attention to detail

Details, details, the devil in the details. This is the area where I could use some feedback. In the engineering profession there is little room for fudge factor when dealing with specifics. In a rapidly moving, team-based environment with multiple clients managing details is a huge priority as each client wants their metaphoric cake delivered with metaphorically awesomely perfect dimensions and frosting. It's a goal all IT workers hold dear.

With this goal in mind, managing details in a digital library has been ineffective for me. Tools like Evernote are useful in theory but seem impossible to populate with effective tags. In essence, building a library and keeping it organized becomes such an intense amount of overhead that its usefulness is undermined. It revolves around you converting everything in your life, from receipts to photos to captures on the web, to digital, and tagging it quickly and effectively. This is time I could spend actually doing the tasks and having a digital librarian in my life could be a full time job!

At any rate, I'm curious as to the techniques people reading this blog entry use to manage your time and people, specifically during the work day, and, if in a management position, how you report this time to management and expect the specifics of those under you to be reported to you. I've been reading the O'Reily book Time Management for System Administrators, and it's giving me insights into this topic as well.

However, software and lifestyle recommendations aside, it's hard to know what people are finding that actually work in practice. That's what I'm looking for, with the understanding that it's different for everyone.Thanks in advance for feedback and contributions! Hopefully this will generate a list that is useful to a lot of people.

Speaking of people who accomplished great things using the little time they were given, Happy Martin Luther King, Jr day to all.

Chris