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The 12 Privacy Tips of Christmas

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With increased commercial activity during the holiday season of the year, it is a good idea to be extra careful to guard againstidentity theft. Tear/shred receipts, copies of credit applications, other documentation containing personal information, don’t just throw it in the garbage. name, address, phone number) will be used.

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Getting Things Done with Lotus Notes

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If you are a Lotus Notes user, this long-awaited document is for you! Great tips and tricks for productive use of the To Do’s, Calendar, Email, Contacts, and more. The two have come together in an ebook from David Allen Company. A 35 page step-by-step manual for optimizing Notes as a personal productivity tool.

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Manage Your Paper With a RAFT

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We you receive document revisions, toss the orginals. Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Don’t keep routine memos or anything that gives you information you already know or have. Record meeting information on your calendar, then toss the memo.

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Get organized for back to school

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Determine what documents you need for school registration. X Chelsea Comment by Chelsea on August 13, 2009 @ 5:16 am Trackbacks Some ways to keep your family active All the little things » GTD Leave a comment Subscribe to blog posts by Email The Essential Motivation Handbook The Zen Habits Handbook for Life! Round up your papers.

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2 Measures of effective productivity systems…

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It doesn’t matter whether you use an electronic document system like Eric Mack , or a shoe box in your closet: if you can’t retrieve the information when you need it, the system is not effective. She understands the first measure of an effective productivity system: 1) You can find things that need to be found.

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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

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Better for you ergonomically as well. I have gotten in the habit of doing this frequently during the day and hardly even think about it until the system shuts down for some reason and then I breathe a sigh of relief when I open the document (by pressing Ctrl + o by the way) and find that I have not lost any of my work.

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Personal Organizer

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For example, if we have to deliver a document at an office and collect a document from another office which is on the same block, both these tasks can be done together. Once you have a list of the things you need to complete, set priorities and decide which jobs should be done first. To-do lists, shopping lists, idea lists, etc.

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