Four Tips to Enhance Your Efficiency
Denise Howell modestly offers some tips to enhance your effiency. They include (1) picking 1-2 devices you like best and consolidate your activities on them (Denise’s personal choices are cell phone and Power Book); (2) get a gmail account to eliminate time spent searching email (Evan Schaeffer endorses the gmail tip also) and (3) make online communications secondary to offline tasks like meetings, calls and errands, since you can schedule most onoline communications during your downtime. The post is short enough for efficient consumption and the tips are simple enough for efficient implementation.
I’m not sure on the idea of setting up a gmail account to save you time. Perhaps, one should just learn how to set up appropriate rules and create folders on your email to ensure that emails go into the correct folder. Having two email addresses is just too confusing for me. I’d rather have one and just organise it properly, and keep it organised.
As for the rest – making on-line business secondary is definitely a good idea. And consolidating on no more than two devices is certainly the way to go. Use a PC for backup, but otherwise work between your mobile and your laptop all the time. That’s the best way to work for me.
You didn’t really mention the fourth tip in your post. Which was making your errands come to you, instead of having you need to come to them / it. Interesting tip!
I’m not sure on the idea of setting up a gmail account to save you time. Perhaps, one should just learn how to set up appropriate rules and create folders on your email to ensure that emails go into the correct folder. Having two email addresses is just too confusing for me. I’d rather have one and just organise it properly, and keep it organised.
As for the rest – making on-line business secondary is definitely a good idea. And consolidating on no more than two devices is certainly the way to go. Use a PC for backup, but otherwise work between your mobile and your laptop all the time. That’s the best way to work for me.
You didn’t really mention the fourth tip in your post. Which was making your errands come to you, instead of having you need to come to them / it. Interesting tip!
Speaking about gmail accounts though, the only way it does save you time is there is considerably less spam! I used to have a yahoo account, but it just gets overloaded with spam. So, I’ve now made it my ‘spam address.’ Whenever I comment somewhere or sign up for something on the Internet i’m not sure about, I put that address. This way, I keep spam or anything like it from my real address and enjoy the freedom.
Plus, on my website I’ve deliberately not put my email address anywhere. One has to click on a link and it opens up outlook for you. This helps for less spam as well, spam bots don’t pick an email address up from my website so they move on.
Speaking about gmail accounts though, the only way it does save you time is there is considerably less spam! I used to have a yahoo account, but it just gets overloaded with spam. So, I’ve now made it my ‘spam address.’ Whenever I comment somewhere or sign up for something on the Internet i’m not sure about, I put that address. This way, I keep spam or anything like it from my real address and enjoy the freedom.
Plus, on my website I’ve deliberately not put my email address anywhere. One has to click on a link and it opens up outlook for you. This helps for less spam as well, spam bots don’t pick an email address up from my website so they move on.