Google Chrome extensions to try
With the help of a few extensions, you can transform Google Chrome from a mere search engine into a productivity powerhouse, writes Trevor Dobrygoski, who recommends these five.
Category: Organizing
4 ways to become master of your email
Email is supposed to make life easier and more efficient, but often it makes things harder and cuts into job productivity. To get more done in less time, you need to take charge of your inbox.
SharePoint will infer your permission rules
Q. In SharePoint, if I control access differently at the folder level than the library, and if the document shows up in another view without the folder, will it have the same access restrictions?
Qool app syncs Windows 8 devices
If you’re using Windows 8 and want a great way to keep track of your to-do list, you should try an application called Qool, writes Dave Johnson, editor of eHow Tech.
1-Minute Strategies: June ’13
Add “investing” to your list of skills … Keep personal and professional online networks separate … Try hosting your next party at the gym … Get ready to say “yes” to napping on the job.
Stop doing that … and that
If your job squares with the Pareto Principle, 80 percent of the results come from 20 percent of your work. So, you’re probably investing much of your time on assignments that yield little return.
Time to trade in your sticky notes?
Gone are the days of needing to write notes on easily destroyed scraps of paper that clutter your desk. Instead, try one of these note-taking applications, Verne Kopytoff writes.
Manage the details, beat the ‘devil’
The devil, as they say, is in the details. In so many workplace situations today, though, the devil is in the abstract phrases that we seem all too eager to accept. The result: misunderstanding and mistakes. And that only makes you look bad.
Why Mailbox for iOS is awesome
For Apple device users, the Mailbox for iOS application is a great new way to manage your email, says Emmanuel Banks. Basically, it turns your email into an efficient to-do list that helps you boost your productivity.
Psychologists’ secrets to productivity
“If you plan to do an unrealistic number of tasks, you’ll end up dreading the day ahead,” psychologist Alice Boyes writes. How to beat procrastination and maximize productivity? Here’s what the experts say.