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Avoid Taking Notes in a Meeting by Simply Snapping a Picture into Evernote
Meetings are boring and tedious. Taking copious notes generally doesn't help matters too much. Want to avoid doing a little extra busywork? Evernote can interpret notes for you from a photo. This tip...
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Sunrise Starts Your Day with an Email Digest of Your Appointments, Events,...
Sunrise is a new web service that sends you an email every morning full of important information: your friends' birthdays, your meetings and calendar appointments, and information about the people...
View ArticleCaptureNotes Offers Audio Recording and Flagged Notes, Syncs with Dropbox and...
iOS: Taking notes on the iPad can be a pretty painful process, but CaptureNotes 2 makes it much easier. Colored flags for different notes, audio recording while you type or write on-screen, photo...
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Functional, Productive Meetings Require Constraints
Few people bear a smile when it's time for a meeting because most of us have spent time in unproductive ones that seem to have no end. But they can be useful and productive, so long as you take the...
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How a Whiteboard Helped a Terrible Delegator Keep a Team On-Task
Last week a whiteboard saved a conference. Or, at least, a whiteboard saved me from myself and my dramatically underdeveloped delegation skills. By forcing myself to fill every inch of space, to act...
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Agenda for Android Gives You a Clean, Minimalist View of All of Your...
Android: Google's built-in calendar app is great, but Agenda combines all of your calendars into a single, easy-to-scan view of all your day's appointments. Simple swipe gestures whisk you from your...
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How to Not Suck at Meetings
Ok, cool. Meetings. They seem simple enough, right? I mean, you just book the thing, show up at a coffee shop, ask some smart questions, and then on to the next one. Boom. Am I winning, or am I...
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"Not Adding Value is The Same As Taking it Away"
It's easy to assume that by merely showing up and doing what's required of you isn't detrimental to those you work with. Writer and entrepreneur Seth Godin has a different theory. On his blog, Godin...
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Improve Your Focus by Fidgeting
We've probably all been there before: Stuck in a meeting bored to tears or our attention wandering during a phone call. Whatever the reason for your trouble staying focused, part of the problem may be...
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How Long Should Meetings Last?
Meetings don't have to be terrible things, as long as whoever calls them is willing to organize them well. But how long should meetings typically run? Meetings are something that most people dread. We...
View ArticleSunrise for iPhone May Be the Last Calendar App You Ever Use
Sunrise for iPhone is more than just a calendar app, it's puts important information about your day front and center, including appointments you have to make, friends' birthdays and events, the day's...
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Limit Major Decisions to Three People to Avoid Wasting Time
Collaboration is great, but sometimes collaboration can devolve into useless debate that doesn't get you anywhere. The Globe and Mail recommend limiting those big decisions to three people or less. The...
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Disagree Constructively at Work by Offering Solutions, Not Just Dissent
Disagreeing with colleagues or managers at work can be a challenge, especially if you want your career to survive the conversation. Still, no one gets anywhere by agreeing with everything everyone...
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Remember This Simple Equation To Run Great Meetings
Nobody likes meetings, so if you schedule one, you'd better get something out of it. A simple formula can help ensure that a meeting won't be a waste of everyone's time. Inc's equation is as follows:...
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Repeat the Question to Buy Yourself More Time to Come Up with a Brilliant...
We've all been in that position at work where we're suddenly put on the spot and asked to come up with a brilliant off-the-cuff solution to a problem. That's a horrible spot to be in because if you...
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If You’re Not Making a Decision, Sharing Information, or Brainstorming, Don’t...
Meetings can be a colossal waste of time, but in some rare cases they're actually necessary to get something done. The key is to make sure that before you schedule or propose a meeting that you're...
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What If You Could Truly Be Yourself at Work?
For two years now, we have been holding regular "community" meetings at our office to give team members an opportunity to check in about how they're doing, not just professionally but also personally....
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Sit In the Front Row and Get More Out of Your Meetings and Conferences
The next time you're in a class, lecture, meeting, or similar event, sit in the front row. As Spindows founder Clay Hebert points out, it can dramatically improve your experience. Concertgoers and some...
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Improve Your Health and Meeting Frustration with Walking Meetings
You have heard and read by now about the rather terrible impact of sitting all day. You also know that meetings involve lots of sitting, and are often terrible. Kill two birds with one stone, and...
View ArticleWeek Calendar Brings Simple Multi-Calendar Management to Android
Android: Week Calendar, one of our favorite calendar apps for the iPhone, has made the jump to Android, and it's brought its simple, gesture-based approach to managing multiple calendars along for the...
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