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The 12 Privacy Tips of Christmas

Ian's Messy Desk

With increased commercial activity during the holiday season of the year, it is a good idea to be extra careful to guard againstidentity theft. Tear/shred receipts, copies of credit applications, other documentation containing personal information, don’t just throw it in the garbage. name, address, phone number) will be used.

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Manage Your Paper With a RAFT

Ian's Messy Desk

We you receive document revisions, toss the orginals. Don’t keep routine memos or anything that gives you information you already know or have. Record meeting information on your calendar, then toss the memo.

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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! Lotus Notes is the groupware of choice for my employer and GTD is my system of choice for keeping organized (however poorly implemented). The two have come together in an ebook from David Allen Company.

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Get organized for back to school

Ian's Messy Desk

Determine what documents you need for school registration. Assess what the kids have, what they need, what can be handed down and what needs to be thrown out. Then, with list in hand, hit the stores. Round up your papers. Eliminate last-minute searches. Organize your mornings.

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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. She understands the first measure of an effective productivity system: 1) You can find things that need to be found.

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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. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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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. Once you have a list of the things you need to complete, set priorities and decide which jobs should be done first.

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