How to Tweak Your Home Office to Be Productive Full-time – Freel. Change is on my mind. This week has been my first week as a full-time web worker. I feel like I have been initiated into a club, and have a new sense of freedom. My home is my office, my work hours are flexible, and I can wear what I want. I like those changes! I also find myself thinking about the changes I need to make for my new work situation to be as effective as possible. Here are five issues I need to deal with when I am working from home next week: 1. A home office should be a dedicated room away from noises and distractions with a door that can be closed when necessary.
A home office should be a dedicated room away from noises and distractions with a door that can be closed when necessary. After that I started using our dining room table, which isn’t often used for dining. But I’m working at my home office all day every day, and that isn’t going to cut it. Would you add anything else to my list? What other type of office needs to take these kinds of issues into account?
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Some of these have been taken from Robin Williams great book “The Non-Designers Type Book” that I recommended in the top 5 typography resources of all time. 1. Helvetica Do you use Helvetica in everything? 2. Do you use straight quotes still? 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 13. 15. 9 Simple Strategies to Getting Things Done At Work » Lyved.
This is a guest post by Jacob Gube of Six Revisions, a web development and design blog. Six Revisions is rapidly becoming successful by publishing positive and very useful articles. Having a full time job, running a web development and design blog, and being a co-founding member of a small group of freelancing web professionals, I tend to have a lot of things that need to be done right now. Naturally, I’ve come to develop a handful of habits that helps me manage such a busy lifestyle while living a balanced life that allows me to give enough attention to my personal well-being. Here, I’d like to share the 9 simple strategies that I use to stay productive, motivated, and happy. 1.) Start with the hard stuff first. We often tend to put the difficult tasks as a late entry on our to-do list because we just don’t want to deal with it right now. 2.)
Often, we measure our productiveness by the length of our task list. 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) 8.) 9.) Online Productivity Toolbox: 30+ Resources to Get Things Done. Being unproductive on the web is easy: click over to YouTube, surf Facebook profiles or go on a Wikipedia binge for a couple of hours. But thanks to the many free and useful new applications on the web, it's also getting easier to keep your life in order. For the next installment of our "toolbox" series, we take a look at the best services for staying in control of your life on the web.
Word Processing Services Online word processing provides you with ways to manage and write documents without a download - great for collaboration or those using multiple computers. Web Portals You have the potential to be productive the moment you turn on your computer and fire up that web browser. Netvibes - Generally considered to be the first successful, independent startpage.
Calendar Services Let's say you have your parent's anniversary, project deadlines, and finally taking the family pet to the vet all coming up this week. Google Calendar - I personally use Google Calendar on a daily basis.