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Podcast 111: Quit sorting

Clutter Coach

There are situations where using one of these sort methods makes sense, such as in your clothes closet. I favor insertion sorting for clothing, combined with purging your cache (listen to the previous podcast to learn about that). This means you take all your clothes out of the closet and put them on the bed.

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The Floater Assistant - From Their Point of View

Laughing all the Way to Work

They come into the office everyday with a list of things that need doing, and that “magic fairy”—you know, like the one at home that refills the toilet paper roll, and mysteriously returns dirty clothes to their clean state—goes quietly through her (or his) day completing each task required. c) Where is your active file list kept?

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Tips for Office Costumes at Halloween

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Tips for Office Costumes at Halloween By The Professional Assistant on Friday, October 31, 2008 Filed Under: Productivity H appy Halloween everyone! Luckily, in my office, we dress in casual clothes all of the time and we do have a corporate policy of being able to dress up in a costume for this event.

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The Three Day Productivity Retreat Everyone Needs

Productivityist

All the books you’ll need to reference. If you are at home on this retreat: clean out your closets, organize your drawers, clean out your junk drawer, dust and clean off your bookshelves, donate old clothes to charity. You don’t want it filed away and when another year rolls by it has collected dust (digital or analog dust.).

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The Three Day Productivity Retreat Everyone Needs

Productivityist

All the books you’ll need to reference. If you are at home on this retreat: clean out your closets, organize your drawers, clean out your junk drawer, dust and clean off your bookshelves, donate old clothes to charity. You don’t want it filed away and when another year rolls by it has collected dust (digital or analog dust.).

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How to Organize Your Files With Cross Referencing

Ian's Messy Desk

To be honest, I’m not a big fan of cross-referenced file systems. Specifically, I’m not a fan of systems which require you to keep a secondary index of things you’ve already filed. computer file, the more places you have to keep files organized, the more places for things to get out of control. Image via Wikipedia.

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Outlook Rules That Rule

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Outlook Rules That Rule By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Outlook , Organize , Prioritize , Productivity E ditor’s note: This is a guest post by Patricia Robb of Laughing All The Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant.

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