Productivity
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MetaNotes - New On-line Service for Taking Notes
MetaNotes is a free note system. Think of if as sticky notes meets on-line notebook meets social web-sites. They just won the Web Award in the Experimental category at the South By Southwest Interactive festival.
You can use MetaNotes to track topics, compose and brainstorm, collaborate and converse. It looks like sticky notes on a long scrolling [...]
Refocus for More Clarity
If you need more clarity, lift the altitude of your focus.
If you are busy and unclear on what you’re supposed to be doing, go back to your plans.
If you are planning and unclear, brainstorm to get the inputs you may be missing to create your plans.
If you are brainstorming and unclear, revisit your vision to [...]
There’s More to Productivity Than Time Management
What does it mean to be productive? That’s the question Dustin Wax asks in his Lifehack.org post, There’s More to Productivity Than Time Management - Lifehack.org. He suggests the typical answer might be, “Getting the most done in the least possible time.”
Once upon at time, efficiency experts and time-management consultants would have been brought into [...]
10 Resources to Help Overcome Procrastination
Posted in Productivity
There’s an urge to start with a comment about putting off this post, but the joke’s been done to death. Unfortunately, there is a lot of truth in the quip. Those of us who procrastination problems tend to put off virtually everything that isn’t entertaining or essential for survival.
Here are links to 10 articles that [...]
10 Quick Time Management Tips for Managers
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The committee of one. Avoid involving unnecessary people in the decision-making process.
E-mail – fast answers. If you can respond in less than five minutes, do so.
Handle correspondence once. Don’t put it back in the pile. Respond right away, as above or get it into a system for processing when it can be answered.
Have a follow-up file. [...]
Lotus Notes Tip: How to Create an E-mail Filter
Suppose you have e-mail you’re receiving in Lotus Notes, but you don’t need to read it every time it arrives. You can use mail rules to have Notes automatically filter new messages you receive that meet certain conditions.
For example, you subscribe to a weekly e-mail called the Monday Motivating Moment. You don’t get around to reading [...]
10 Time Management Tips to Keep You On Track
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Conquer the clutter. If your desk harbours mounds of papers, books, files and personal accessories, you may be adding unnecessary stress to your day. An organized desk will help you relax and become more productive. Schedule 10 to 15 minutes each week to clear your work area of junk mail, old papers, [...]
Leap day: 29 ways to get organized in 24 hours
As I was driving into work today, it occurred to me that February 29 is an extra day, which could be put to better use. Here I was, getting ready to do exactly what I would be doing if today was March 1.
Today should be a national holiday. Once every four years you get to [...]
On-line Voting is Now Open in the MyFax Messy Office Contest
Are you tired of the Hillary, Barack drama? Is the Alberta Provincial election putting you to sleep? Well, here’s some real election news. Ten finalists have been selected by the MyFax “messperts,” and now it’s time for the People to be heard. Who is the biggest slob in the MyFax Messy Office Contest?
For the next week, those who wish [...]
