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Productivity tips for Gmail at work
I use Gmail at work and I'm interested in using it more effectively. Does anyone have any productivity tips for how they use Gmail and Google Calendar at work?
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How do I get rid of subvocalisation
I heard about speed reading techniques which enable a person to read quickly.
I looked into some of them and removing subvocalization was the best option I found. Can anyone shed light on how I can ...
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How to take the first step when expressing my emotions? [closed]
I always find it difficult to express love or affection towards my family members, friends, and people surrounding me.
When my sister was alone in a hostel crying, I found it difficult to say "Hey ...
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Synchronize shopping lists
What is the most effective way to synchronize shopping lists in a household, so that family members can quickly help purchase items for each other?
(My guess is that there are smartphone apps for ...
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How to remove selfishness from productivity?
While in a productive mindset, it is easy to value your time more over social activities, relationships, and friendships. You think more about the work to do rather than the friendships you need to ...
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How to pace myself at work?
First of all, a little background:
I'm a programmer, developing web-based applications, working a full-time job for the first time in my life. I've been working in the area for a decade now, but ...
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Why do people always make fun of and laugh at me? [closed]
No matter wherever I go I find some people laugh at me and make fun of me.
Whatever I say, becomes stupid. Whatever I do shows stupid.
Some even go to extreme and harass me.
I can share one ...
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How to get my dream job? [closed]
I want advise on what to do to get hired as programmer, software engineer, how to advance my education, and preferably a working future abroad.
Please can you suggest me where/how I can find a better ...
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4answers
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Is talking to yourself a good thing?
I talk to myself aloud through out the day. I never felt it weird. But it does get embarrassing when colleagues give you weird looks. I know I am not alone though.
Also I am introvert. So it sort of ...
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Is it better to send attachment over email or should we use public url links?
Recently I have been using using dropbox's public url feature to share my files over email. I'm looking for some information on if it's the best thing to do.
Attachments over email
Advantage:
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1answer
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Review of my system
Per Peer review: my personal productivity system. and also How to improve my personal productivity system? I'm interested in people reviewing my personal productivity system.
As I talked about here, ...
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How to remember mundane stuff
There are some mundane tasks that you perform every day, sometimes under great stress. For instance:
Taking your medication
Locking your front door
Parking your car
Since you're so used to them, ...
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How can I make myself remember to use a new password?
I just swapped my old password at work and every time I sit down at the computer, I end up typing the old one because it is an ingrained habit. How can I get myself to type the new one instead? To be ...
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How can I remain productive when working long hours?
Occasionally I have to spend some late nights working on projects. It is not a common occurrence, but sometimes projects just need an extra night or two to hit a deadline. Unfortunately I have found ...
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how much does one need to change their living situation to be productive enough?
While looking at The Happiness Project, Steve Pavlina, Randy Pausch etc I realize there are a number of objective things you need to do in your life to be productive. One needs to learn how to sleep ...
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I need some way to organize files/data visually on Windows 7
I'm looking for a solution for a user. User is not technologically advanced, but willing to learn. User is not doing this for a job, does not have access to sharepoint, exchange, or other corporate ...
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The art of moving on from heart break
Would someone be kind enough to tell me how to move on from a heart break. It's been almost 8 months and there are still remnants of past memories. Moving on is easier said than done.
She ditched me ...
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How to focus on reading while the TV is on [duplicate]
My girlfriend loves watching TV but I like to read. I have a lot of trouble focusing between the noise and visual of the TV. I still want to spend that time relaxing with her because we're lucky to ...
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Monitor Display Settings for better productivity
I am a software professional and have to do coding as well as having to do reading on the computer for the whole day. I noticed some time back that I tend to take my face a bit closer to monitor when ...
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Exam stress reduction tips
Whenever an exam is approaching, I begin to feel anxious, worried, I also feel fear that something will go wrong and of course it does go wrong, but not due to my lack of knowledge : it's that stress ...
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1answer
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How should an individual's goals take priority in relation to a group's goals?
Background: At home I spend quite some time talking with my life-partner about what we are doing, where we are going, how we are living together, what our different point of views are on the same ...
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How to quickly remove bad experiences from mind & switch to another task?
If something bad happens to me in a day, I can't remove that bad experience from my mind; at least for that entire day or sometimes for next 2-3 days (no matter how small that bad experience is). And ...
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Creative Common system to memorize 1000 numbers from 0-999 [closed]
There are some mnemonic systems used to remember long sequences of digits.
I am planing to set up an item list of all 1000 numbers from 0 to 999.
Is there a standard, that is mostly used already?
I ...
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how to keep consistent self belief
I am sharing with you my week experiment result.
Out of 7 days, 2 days my confidence was up and every difficult task was done and I was happy but on the other 5 days my confidence was less, some ...
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How to avoid losing my motivation during long periods of inactivity?
When I started university, I was really excited about learning new things. My first 2 years were harsh but with a lot of effort and discipline I managed to get good grades and got into all the ...
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I find it impossible to wake up early
Yes, I know, this has been asked many times before. So why do I make a new question about it?
Well it's simply because I've tried every technique there is (everything on here for example) and I. ...
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maintaining productivity through disillusionment
Just a question of how is the best way to maintain at least an adequate level of productivity when one feel disillusioned with most aspects of daily life - a daily life that can't be changed ...
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How to utilize a 4 month pregnancy break such that the mind is rejuvenated? [migrated]
We can't plan outdoor trips. I'll be staying at home with only two people around (during day time) - me and the baby.
What and how activities should be planned during this break so that my mind is ...
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4answers
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Automatically processing emails
In trying to eliminate the various timesinks that plague my day, I thought about the time that I spend dealing with automatic emails. The most common kind are invoices for which I've automatically ...
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1answer
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Whats an effective color for a todo board?
Different colors have different effects on our moods and behaviors. So, for a todo board that is in line of sight of your workspace, what would be an effective color?
Some supporting ...
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Personal Kanban - Use multiple boards?
I'm using personal kanban and currently have 2 separate boards - one for job hunting and school, one for household chores. Each is has color coded task types in addition. I don't switch between boards ...
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Productivity trainer audio similar to fitness trainer
When we go to workout with a trainer or use a fitness training video, the trainer goads us on to train harder and push ourselves even further. This helps us to push ourselves beyond the limits we ...
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4answers
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How do you remember to work off your todo list?
I have a problem with working off my todo list (which is a canonical GTD next-action list in digital form.)
The problem is that I never remember to look at the list for determining what to do next. I ...
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How to keep up with smaller priorities when there are larger priorities?
I am having trouble balancing "little recurring tasks" with the more pressing, timely tasks.
Examples of little recurring tasks from my last semester:
Every Friday at 5PM I had 10 homework problems ...
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How to make sure that I don't forget all the books I read and all the experience I have
I read many books, articles, listened to many videos, and I made use of them a lot, but, after a while, I forget everything I've read or seen, as if I have never went through them.
For example, in ...
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How to get more from a laid-back QA internship? [migrated]
I started an internship 2 weeks ago as a Quality Assurance Engineer intern and in the intern orientation I was told: "You can only get out as much as you put into your internship." After the ...
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Overcome extreme laziness and increase productivity
How do I tackle extreme laziness to increase productivity? For example, here are some problems associated with it:
Writing down tasks to do, but executing none
Getting bored at all times
Feeling ...
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Using Fitts's law to compare traditional mice with head tracking devices
As I use a head tracking device (SmartNAV) to move the mouse cursor for efficiency purpose, I was curious to know whether the Fitts's law can be applied to it (i.e. is not restricted to hands). ...
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How to cultivate a reading habit?
I'm a graduate student in computer science, but I have only read 3 academic papers so far this year. The Internet is too fun for me, and I actually have learned a lot from it. The problem is that it's ...
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Sleeping when not tired - Procrastination?
Suppose that I am working late and night, and suddenly I decide to go to sleep even though I am not tired - postponing all the remaining work for later. And it's like I have a holiday, I am not ...
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Mentoring a Fresher [migrated]
I am working as a developer in software industry for past 8 years. I have seen many projects and worked as a dev lead which also involves interacting with QA team to get the testing done of the ...
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Is there something where can I throw away my frustration for an individual
Somebody cheated on me. I can't do anything.
I want to throw away my frustration. Is there any website or something where I can tell truth to the world. I want people to be aware of that guy. I know ...
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How do you act confident?
How do you act confident in front of your peers when you have a low self-confidence?Also, how do you get rid of your low self-confidence and bad body image?
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app which to keep track of reminders and scrap notes
I am looking for an all encompassing app which allows me to handle the my calendar (with mobile reminders) and my "scrap notes" (to-do lists, links I want to check out in the future, cool stuff I find ...
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Effective method of thinking beyond the first idea
As the title says, do you know any effective ways of escaping the trap of thinking about a problem only in the terms of the first idea/solution that came up?
I have encountered this issue both in my ...
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How do you remember to sit up straight?
I spent some time thinking about this recently. It's kind of frustrating. It seems that most of the advice out there on posture is about why sitting up straight is good for you. There are also all ...
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How to maintain Day-Specific Actions such that they don't become Daily To-Do lists?
Following quotes are picked out from the GTD book of David Allen:
Day-Specific Actions: These are things that you need to do some-
time on a certain day, but not necessarily at a specific time.
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How to incorporate the processing diagram of GTD on paper?
What would be an efficient way of penning down these branches with my own activities on paper?
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How can I get rid of the psychological effects of bad experiences from the past?
As a college student, I had my shares of failures in exams, courses, quite a handful of it, so much that it resulted in my one year extension in the university. With this I feel that my past failures ...
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How do you organize your life in Asana?
I am looking forward to migrate fully to asana from Things because of pricing/costs reasons. What I have right now in Things (for Mac) is :
Today
Next
Scheduled
Someday
Projects
I have never used ...
