Reader Tip: How to solve the problem of male single-tasking with modern services
Tips / / December 19, 2019
This material was kindly provided us Egor licorice, A regular reader and hope columnist :) In the article, he tells his story of introduction popular services into the workflow to eliminate, as he says, bug modern man - single-tasking.
American Mark Gangora The priest, in his seminar "Laugh on the way to a happy marriage," explained the model of the male brain as follows. Every area of our lives corresponds to a separate box: for work, for family, for friends, for cars, sports, etc. By that most men do not multitask - these boxes do not intersect, focusing on one thing, we forget about rest. That's how our brains. And to fix this bug, we have to use third-party tools in the digital age, such applications have become tools.
It is important to find the tools suitable for you and understand in which specific tasks of your business they are needed. For me, the list of tasks to be automated like this:
- lists
- Postponement of interesting materials for later
- Workflow and collaborate on documents
- Catalog of favorite TV series
lists
First of all we care about time management and the todo-lists. Applications and services designed to solve this problem even more than daily tasks by adding to them. Facing a choice of one of the many "tudushek," each of us chooses a tool that should improve his life differently. Someone stop at the conventional leader, not wishing to be dug in the variety of alternatives; someone on the contrary fundamentally avoids bored options in favor of a little-known player; the third important design applications and for someone to bleed from the nose must be cross-platform solution. Or God knows why.
I chose Astrid the following reasons:
- availability of applications for Google Chrome;
- availability of applications for Android, working on version 2.1;
- the opportunity to work through a web-face;
- Sync it all together;
- nice and simple interface.
Astrid actually has a lot more buns, for example: joint lists with friends, integration with smart phone dialer and adding missed / rejected the call in the list, attach files to tasks, their own lists, setup menus, different templates and interface more. And the best part is that most of the functions can be disabled or hidden if you do not use them.
Astrid can sync with Google Calendar and add your planned business calendar. Manage all aspects of their life with a minimum of applications!
Google Chrome App, and integration with Gmail
After installing the app Astrid Google Chrome, that's such a button will appear in Gmail
which opens directly into the mail pop-up task manager that is easy and convenient to add / change tasks, mark made or delegated staff those that feel that they themselves are not manage.
Besides the manager that you can hide, the application adds to the interface of your mail Remind Me button, which can be used in just one click to convert incoming emails into tasks. Believe me, it's pretty darn convenient!
application Astrid for Android (There are also for iPhone).
Read later
For this task I copes Evernote, which probably already know all who have faced the challenge of maintaining large volumes of information. And if you do not know what information about him already enough for a separate Wikipedia.
I did not save the article to check out today. I just save links to interesting articles, grouping them by topic and read when I have time.
Workflow in the cloud or heavenly office
The solution is also quite obvious to most - Google Drive. Since 90% of my documents is only text files, then choosing a service to store documents and collaborate on them in the most convenient for me turned out to be a product of my Google's favorite. He copes with the preparation of text documents and the opening of all MS Office documents. It enables easy collaboration on a document and the change history. Thanks to chat editors can communicate without having to switch to another tab, so, I tell you a damn convenient and useful! If your editors / company / startup / classmates so anyone looking for a perfect web-based interface for group work - pay attention to Google Drive.
Any document can be sent to on the fly emails, allowing to view or edit it to all those who have a direct link or owners of certain email-addresses.
All offers and articles including this one, I write in Google Drive and goes straight out the window for editing the document, attach it to the letter.
catalog of films
Same your Google Drive to use as anything catalog. For example, I use it to store the last viewed a series of favorite TV shows and anime. Yes, I like a few hours of your day to kill on such nonsense :)
Separate folder for television series and separate anime series, in each of which a particular show a text document with the number and name of the scanned series - convenient, clear, vertical and logical scheme.
And access to Google services from my smartphone, tablet PC or any making available the necessary information to me virtually anytime and anywhere.