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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

Ian's Messy Desk

I learned from my mother. 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. Thanks for visiting!

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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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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

Laughing all the Way to Work

Better for you ergonomically as well. I have gotten in the habit of doing this frequently during the day and hardly even think about it until the system shuts down for some reason and then I breathe a sigh of relief when I open the document (by pressing Ctrl + o by the way) and find that I have not lost any of my work.

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