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3 tips for a stress-free connected workplace

Ian's Messy Desk

Determine if you can digitize any of your printed documents. Think ergonomics – you should have a desk chair that is adjustable and provides proper back support. Recycle or shred anything that you do not need a copy of. Ensure your office and desk set up is comfortable. Be a good communicator.

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Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes

Ian's Messy Desk

If you are a Lotus Notes user, this long-awaited document is for you! Great tips and tricks for productive use of the To Do’s, Calendar, Email, Contacts, and more. A 35 page step-by-step manual for optimizing Notes as a personal productivity tool.

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Manage Your Paper With a RAFT

Ian's Messy Desk

Record meeting information on your calendar, then toss the memo. We you receive document revisions, toss the orginals. Toss out anything you no longer need. Don’t keep routine memos or anything that gives you information you already know or have.

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Get organized for back to school

Ian's Messy Desk

Have a Centralized Calendar. A family calendar can help you track what is going on for all family members. Determine what documents you need for school registration. They don’t want to think about school a day earlier than necessary. Here are some tips to prepare home and family for getting into the back-to-school groove.

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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

Ian's Messy Desk

It doesn’t matter whether you use an electronic document system like Eric Mack , or a shoe box in your closet: if you can’t retrieve the information when you need it, the system is not effective. My mother has gotten things done by using heavily annotated paper calendars.

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Personal Organizer

Ian's Messy Desk

For example, if we have to deliver a document at an office and collect a document from another office which is on the same block, both these tasks can be done together. A calendar is the easiest place to track such a list. 3) A to-do list lets you coordinate similar tasks A to-do list helps us to avoid repetition of labour.

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10 Tips to Help Keep Your Desk Clean

Ian's Messy Desk

Add dated or calendar items to a tickler file system or a diary as soon as they arrive. The trick for any of them is to learn to use MULTIPLE TAGS so that you can find them, otherwise – for example, your searches will pull up a thousand documents with the word ‘HTML’ in them.

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