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3 Tips for Breaking the Clutter Cycle at Your Desk

Stephanie LH Calahan

Stacks of paperwork are one thing, but when they’re compounded by endless emails, Facebook updates, and text messages, it can become increasingly difficult to focus on the task at hand. A file cabinet can be your most useful accessory. It’s okay to have one folder or basket on top of your desk that’s a ‘Need to File’ bin.

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Interview Questions and Answers for PAs, EAs and Admins Part 6

Practically Perfect PA

He was very self reliant so he didn’t want me to touch his unique filing system. I knew that I could help him so in the first few months of working together I started to print out his email attachments and anything that he might need for an upcoming meeting.

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12 Business Productivity Tools They Can Not Live Without.

Stephanie LH Calahan

It houses so much more than a file index. This allows them to keep it within site, but all projects are kept in an organized file. Once the project is completed, the whole pile of that particular project can be filed away; out of site. Thanks to Ellen Delap of Professional-Organizer.com 3.

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Best Business Technology for Small Businesses & Their Owners (28 ideas from them to you!)

Stephanie LH Calahan

OneNote: My Filing Cabinet In The Clouds. create notebooks and files just like I would with paper, but now it is all organized on my computer. It allows us to easily email branded invoices to our clients, which they can then pay by mail or online. Find here: steph.bz/EZBackup. We can also generate reports to track our income.

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Productive Networking: 22 Ideas to Organize Business Cards for Effective Followup

Stephanie LH Calahan

They are then placed in a reference (Rolodex) file by type of business and not the name. I File Them (Then I Forget Them). I file them away, and rarely look at them again. Staple the cards into a little notebook, one card per page. Next I import them into IContact and send them a nice to meet you eMail.

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Do You Hate Your To-Do List? Try This Instead - Productive & Organized

Stephanie LH Calahan

Maybe You Should | Main | The Great Calendar Debate - Paper or Electronic - 21 Experts Weigh In » Do You Hate Your To-Do List?   I carry a Note Jotter by Staples in my purse and love it.    Click to get posts as we publish Prefer less email? Productive & Organized Home Contribute to P&O!

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Colour Coding Works.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was in back-to-back Committee meetings and I decided to use two different colours of folders, a blue one for the Committee members, with an attendance sheet stapled to the inside cover for my purposes, along with their meeting packages, and a red one for the Chair with everything the Chair was going to need. Try it, you may like it.