Email is one of the most misunderstood parts of our working lives. We often treat it as something outside real work. You’ll hear people say, “I had so much work today, I couldn’t check my emails,” as if email were a distraction rather than a conduit. That framing is [...]
Copy-paste brings speed to digital content creation and the idea is as old as the wheel - we hardly notice doing it. Our mind moves faster than what our hands can move on the keyboard, so copy-paste makes up for the gap. Copy-Paste works because of the clipboard system [...]
Mail templates save time when you frequently send emails with similar content to many people or to the same person at different times. The idea here is to draft a mail with a subject, content, and attachment (if needed) and save it as a template. Now next time if [...]
If you are using multiple email services, which is quite common, you will have appointments in more than one calendar App. One of your organizing activities should then be to configure to integrate all the calendars into just one. Also, the integrated calendar should also be made available on [...]
How do you prepare agendas for your meetings? For most, it is extempore! For some, an hour before the meeting is agenda time. But the best way to make an agenda for your meeting is to treat it like a running list. A running list is a list in which [...]
Tsundoku (Japanese: 積ん読) is acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one's home without reading them. Source: Wikipedia If you are like most others, you keep buying books indiscriminately, start reading some, and hardly finish any. A thought about your reading progress dreads you as it is just all over the [...]
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, [...]
Whether you read to learn, to escape, or simply to enjoy a good story, reading plays a vital role in our personal growth and well-being. But in today’s busy world, how we read can be just as important as what we read. That’s where e-books and e-readers come in. [...]