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Weekly Organizer Worksheet Download - Stepcase Lifehack. There are several thousand Web sites that will help keep you organized. However, if you prefer to use pen and paper, the Weekly Schedule Task Planner may be just what the doctor ordered. studentl.inc created a one-page paper sheet to help you organize your week. The following is the description from studentl.inc: Weekly View section – The weekly calendar sits on the left hand side of the paper. Each day is a box, with Saturday/Sunday sharing a box.

Introducing The Weekly Schedule Task Planner – [studentl.inc] Working in Project Space - Stepcase Lifehack. One of the givens in David Allen’s Getting Things Done is that you can’t “do” a project. Instead, Allen recommends you break projects down into immediate “next actions”, discrete doable chunks that can be “cranked through” with a minimum of effort. While this approach works pretty well for a lot of tasks, it falls short for a lot of creative people for whom the “meat” of their work cannot easily be reduced to simple tasks. Let me give you an example. I am putting together a paper to present at an academic conference in a couple of weeks.

Some of the steps I need to take are clear: gather research materials, create an outline, build a bibliography, and so on. Of course, there are smaller tasks involved in writing, but it would be foolish to think of them as separate actions, and even more foolish to write them down in my lists. Have an idea Construct an argument Shape persuasive paragraphs Develop my thesis Support argument with evidence And so on… Creating the Project Space.

Simple Ways To Organize Your Files In Mac. Most modern computer users might find it difficult to imagine living in the time when the size of computer hard disks was within the range of a few megabytes. But users from the early days of computers knew the storage space limitation so well that they learned to be very selective in choosing which files to keep and which files to throw away. Thanks to the luxury of virtually unlimited storage space that we have today, computer users have developed the “save everything now, think about them later” attitude. The problem is, for some “too many things to do” people ““ like me (and maybe most of you) – “later” might never come. Then one day, the hundredth time you find yourself rummaging your hard drive(s) for that one specific file that you really need without a clue about the file identity, you’ll wish you’d done something earlier in the file-organizing department.

The Grouping & The Searching Problems arise when you have to decide where to put files from Project X that are also a MP3. The 90 Best Lifehacks of 2009: The Year in Review - Stepcase Lifehack. Another year is winding down, and that means it’s time to take a look back at what we’ve done here at Lifehack over the last 12 months. 2009 was a scary year for a lot of people – corporate layoffs, a shaky global economy, stunningly vicious politics, old wars grinding on and new ones flaring up. In the midst of all this, though, many saw opportunities; with the myth of life-long corporate employment shattered as some of the world’s biggest companies teetered on the brink of collapse, entrepreneurship enjoyed a major resurgence. This rise in self-reliance extends beyond our work life, too – people are embracing a do-it-yourself, person-to-person lifestyle where status and the display of wealth matter much less than authenticity and social interaction.

All of this is reflected in the posts that went up on this site over the last year. What emerges from all this is a treasure trove of good advice, ranging from the lofty and idealistic to the immediately practical. Software and Technology.

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How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert. Einstein once said, “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” The same could be said of intelligence. What they don’t tell you is that the “smart” people of the world are, in most cases, just better at researching and learning things than everyone else. But researching is a learned skill, not something you’re born with. And while some people might be predisposed to learn things more easily than others, it’s generally not enough to make a measurable difference.

By learning how to research, you can quickly and fairly easily become knowledgeable about just about anything. And with the Internet, almost anything you could ever want to know is at your fingertips. You just have to learn how to access it. It’s all there, online, for free. Start with Wikipedia Whenever you try to learn something new on the Internet, start with Wikipedia. The main reason to start with Wikipedia is that it gives a good overview of most topics. First of all, read the introduction to the page. Arts.