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Deconstruct Your Office Into Core Resources To Rebuild Productivity

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Whether digital cloud stores, print materials such as HR documents and floor plans, or peer knowledge, employees need access to these data to successfully complete projects. In fact, research shows that people assimilate information better when hand writing notes (Shibata, Omura).

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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. Or, if you prefer, you can subscribe to my blog posts by e-mail. Thanks for visiting!

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The Paperless Society: A dream or a necessity?

Laughing all the Way to Work

We have made impressive strides in that direction however with the use of e-mail, word processing, document management systems and the ability to scan documents. There is software already available to save e-mails directly into our document management systems and to put them in the correct file.

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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. Comments You need to read Mark Forster’s Do It Tomorrow to learn why some of these “advantages&# are the opposite.

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Got A Large Print Job From Your Boss? Not Sure What To Do?

Professional Assistant Blog

Ive been in these types of situations quite often, but have learned over time that many photocopiers these days have functions so advanced that it can clean your floors, do your dishes and tuck your kids in at night. Photocopy all publications one after another, whether it be via the document feeder, the glass pane or both.

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10 Tips to Help Keep Your Desk Clean

Ian's Messy Desk

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. and use a free program like Coperinic, Google Desktop to find them quickly.

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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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