In my earlier posts, I had delved into, how we collect the relevant content for our reading and how we organize it for “reading later App”. Still, a question, probably most difficult, is unsolved and that is when to read it. Reading small posts is one thing but reading [...]
You might be thinking, Why should I bother with a system for birthdays and anniversaries when I already have Facebook or LinkedIn doing the job for me? Here’s the thing: not everyone is on social media. And what if you decide to take a break from it? You could [...]
In the first post in this series, we cared about managing pictures and videos on your mobile device. Although storage on our devices is getting bigger but so does the data that we create or receive. So being organized helps to keep storage under control. Lesser data eases everything, [...]
We all are in the game, where reading is critical for our success. We must organize our reading so that we are both efficient & effective at it. E-books and e-readers are excellent productivity boosters. They have come of age and have a clear edge over printed books. I [...]
We are always striving to attain a few goals, some professional and some personal. The secret behind achieving a seemingly big goal is to start dividing it into doable actions. This old adage exemplifies the spirit - How to eat an elephant; of course one bite at a time. [...]
We like to stay current on various topics of our interest by keeping a tab on web sources. Google Alerts is a free tool that could help us with it. Google Alerts, in its own words, “monitors the web for interesting new content”. Don't worry if someone tells you [...]
Imagine this: you glance at your mobile device and discover a flood of notifications. Among them are LinkedIn notifications. Swiftly sifting through them, you pause at a post containing a link to a lengthy and intriguing article. However, your original intention was to simply clear the notification, and now [...]
Do you know how Jeff Bezos starts his day? Well, I don’t know. Frankly, I don’t care also. All of us have different body clocks and different profiles, no one knows you better than yourself, and so you are the best judge of when and how you start your [...]
It always pays to hasten your typing once you have the content ready in your mind, more so if you are not a formally trained typist. Here are some ideas: The good old Copy-Paste technique is a great force multiplier when you are creating content or writing messages and [...]
Here is an interesting way to maintain a journal that makes you more productive as well. Journal means different things to different people and what I mean here is recording everything that you do in your day. Not exciting? Hear me out! First and foremost (as you would expect [...]