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A Few Tips On Being More Productive

Posted by: meshin | Posted on: November 4th, 2010 | 4 Comments

In these days of 24 hour, 7 day a week communication it is hard for the typical person to “stay on top” of everything going on. You have emails, phone calls, faxes, breaking news, video, status updates and much more coming at you. Keeping up with all this incoming information, keeping your clients happy and getting your job can be a challenge in these days of, lets call it, hypercommunicatons.

Here are some simple, easy, these you can do to help wade through some of the information coming at you:

- Use a Blog Reader. In short it uses RSS feeds to send the most current blog/website updates to you. One of the most popular and easy to use is Google Reader. Simply put a blog reader brings the blog & website articles to you. Instead of checking websites all the time for updated content you just subscribe to a RSS feed and it will update the blog reader.

-Bring your favorite websites/bookmarks with you everywhere using Xmarks. This little addon to your web browser lets you sync your favorites on any computer you use and your mobile phone. Using this tool you can easily mark a website at work and follow up on your phone or another computer later.

-Use a tool like Meshin with your email. Using something like this that brings all the information about a person, place, and business in one place makes your day a lot easier and faster. Everything you need is right there in your email, it is making sense of it and bringing the information out that is time intensive.

-GoogleDocs: You can access your documents from any computer and even your phone. You can have several people edit a document at the same time, make notes, and collaborate. Being able to access a document using the cloud, at anytime is very powerful.

What are some of your tips for being more productive?

  • http://jamesmulvey.wordpress.com/ james

    In grad school, I learned one of the best productivity tips there is: take a 5 minute break every 1 hour. It refreshes your brain and prevents you from wasting hours being distracted and tired.

    Eugene Schwartz, I learned later, also used this tip religiously. He only worked for 33.33 minutes and then took a five minute break. His theory was that the break allows things from your unconscious to add to your creativity.

    He also believed doing this prevented writers block as it put you under a higher power (the clock) and then released you so that you didn’t waste time during work and worked very intently.

    My break is over. Thanks

    Jamesmulvey@wordpress.com

  • http://www.shepy.co.uk Shepy

    Unfortunately XMarks is coming to an end, so probably not a good idea to use. Firefox Sync (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10868/) from Mozilla themselves performs the same task though.

    Also, i find Remember The Milk an excellent task / note service, with App For The Milk (http://www.chrillo.info/apps/app-for-the-milk/) running on all machines i use, and the RTM client on mobile device, then i can add notes and reminders wherever i am, so I can continue with what im doing and not forget anything that may pop into mind and be distracting.

    ~Shepy

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    New here and just subscribed.I like what I see here,lots of good articles and I don’t know where to start lol.Good thing I found this blog and it looks like I have a lot to read.

  • http://indserial.com Ind Serial

    I finally managed to figure this out.  If you want, I can email you a
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    Thanks,