Category: Personal productivity
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How to cope with stress due to overwork
I promise that if you read this article to the end you will feel a bit better than you do now. Why is overwork so common and why is it stressful The use of information processing equipment has made an excessive workload normal for many workplaces. Computers can collect information and pass it to humans…
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is Snagit dead? – OneNote & Paint the future?
I have always used Snagit for screen captures, it has nice workflow and just works. Except for the last two years it does not work properly if you have a high dpi monitor such as Microsoft Surface. In my case I have an external monitor as well and the Snagit interface becomes tiny on the…
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A workaround for Outlook.com not supporting attachments in appointments
Outlook.com is a free email and calendar server provided by Microsoft. It supports Exchange ActiveSync (commonly known as EAS) is a communications protocol designed for the synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from a messaging server to a smartphone or other mobile devices. EAS support is good because in practice it means that…
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How to be Productive (part 2): The Action Book revisited
If you have been capturing your actions in an Action Book for a week or more using the method described in Part 1 then you will discovered some fresh challenges. Older Actions Some earlier actions will be outstanding and getting difficult to review because they are a long way back in your book and sandwiched…
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How to be Productive (part 1): The Action Book
Productivity is not everything but in the long run it is almost everything Paul Kruger In the long run your success at work will be determined by your productivity. Productive people make more stuff, sell more things, impress more people and do better. So how do you become more productive? This series of articles, sponsored…
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How do I re-index Outlook
I am in the middle of moving from storing old emails in directories to storing them in a single directory called Reference and using Microsoft Outlook Categories to indicate the topic. After moving 3000 emails I found that nothing was returning in the search. I needed to force Outlook to re-index the emails. I found this…
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How to become lucky
This is a good article on how to become lucky in life, http://ninjasandrobots.com/why-are-some-people-so-much-luckier-than-others
Dr James Bayley 