Category Archives: Organize your Bytes

How To Eliminate the Urgency of Email

Step away from your inbox! Don’t think you can? Well, this simple service called AwayFind will allow you to do just that. One of the reasons you feel the need to check email email every 20 seconds is the fear that there might be something urgent sitting in your inbox. If you are serious about...

What Is the 2-Minute Rule Anyway?

Many productivity experts talk about the “two-minute rule”, which dictates if a task will take 2 minutes or less to complete, rather than defer and push it off until later (whenever that may be), you should do it now. Recently, I received an inquiry from another experienced professional organizer.  She was partially playing devil’s advocate...

Tech Toolkit: Convert Image or PDF to Text

A short and sweet post about software services and tech tools… Who: Free Online OCR What: Online conversion service from image or pdf to text Where: http://NewOCR.com/ How Much: Currently free Why: I serve on the chapter board of my professional association and had a PDF that required updating but did not have a copy...

Quote: Store thoughts in appropriate places…

"One of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned in my quasi-scientific approach to sustained laziness is the value of storing thoughts in appropriate places, as soon as I have them. That means parking them where I will later evaluate their merit (or lack thereof) and dispose of them accordingly. Having a thought once is what...

How to Create a Customer Survey on a Shoestring Budget

OK, really, it won’t cost you a dime…only you’re time.  If you’re a solopreneur, freelancer or other small business owner, you may find it challenging to collect feedback from clients and prospects.  Even more than collecting it, you are frustrated when it comes to organizing and accessing it in a way that you are actually...