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How to Turn Google Into the Best To-Do App Ever
For a certain kind of (slightly uptight) person, it's easy to spend far more time futzing with your to-do list than actually, you know, doing the things on it. You can spend hours playing with new apps-Wunderlist! Todoist! Any.do! Asana!-and new methods-Kanban! GTD! Pomodoro! The Eisenhower Matrix! These are all real things!
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Steps for Better Time Management
- Add as much as you can into the system. You can email yourself things to do, or put them in your calendar, or take quick notes, or take a picture.
- Process it all as fast as y...
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Organizing Less And Doing More
It’s easy to spend time organizing a to-do list and forget to do the things in the list to avoid that:
- Pick an app that will automatically sync information on multiple platforms s...
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Getting Things Done, or GTD, is a system for getting organized and staying productive. It may seem complicated on the outside, but the end goal is to spend less time doing the things you have to do so you have more time for the things you want to do.
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GTD (Getting Things Done)
GTD is a productivity method for organizing your to-dos, priorities, and schedule in a way that makes them all manageable.
Its 5 principles are:
- Capture
- Clarify
- Organize
- Reflect
- Engage
GTD: Capture
Capture everything. Your to-dos, your ideas, your recurring tasks, everything. Put it in a pen-and-paper notebook, a to-do app, a planner, whatever you prefer to use to get organized.
The Zen Master's Guide to Email Productivity | Process Street | Checklist, Workflow and SOP Software
Yesterday I found out that the average person checks their emails 77 times per day. Seriously? Is that what people do? Back in the 90s, computers used to gleefully announce that ' you've got mail', but now clearing your inbox is cause for celebration.
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Determine What The Sender Needs From You Asap
Ask yourself:
- What’s the meaning and the value of the message?
- What action does this message require of me?
Suggested Email Structure
- Greeting
- Pleasantry
- How you got their details, call back and reason for email
- Body Topic: Situation, Benefit, Call to Action
- Closing line
- Signature
Habits For Efficient Email Processing
- Do – If it’s actionable, execute the task and archive.
- Delegate – Forward it on.
- Defer – Decide to do it later (snooze it until a concrete time).
- Delete – If possible, do it to reduce your inbox.
- File – If necessary, tag it and set a reminder for later to process items in that tag.