Four ways to keep email and chat apart
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Have you noticed that email and chat often gets jumbled together? You end up with the same conversation spread out in many places simultaneously. You need to spend valuable time looking for where someone wrote what. In episode No. 552 of Done!, I share four ways to prevent this from happening. In fact, is the line between chat and email already clear to you and your colleagues? Great! What have you done to draw the line? of what can help us separate the two. Want ? These episodes are also available as a weekly newsletter to your email. If you rather read than listen (or both!), David...
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The three main ways AI has saved me time so far
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A myriad of new AI tools are emerging rapidly now. In this week's Done! No. 551, I share three tools that saves me hours every week. The tools I mention are: Have you found any other AI services that I have not mentioned here that have saved you work and time? . I wrote this text last Tuesday, and before it reached your eyes, it is possible that much more has emerged that would fit in this trio. I will write about them another time! An interesting study I found points to that . These episodes are also available as a weekly newsletter to your email. If you rather read than listen...
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How many folders should you have in your mailbox?
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What is the best way create good order in your mailbox? Should you use folders or not? In this episode of Done!, No. 550, I share how to find the best structure for how to save emails. Do you have a folder structure in your email client that you really like? - I love seeing good examples of structure that work well. These episodes are also available as a weekly newsletter to your email. If you rather read than listen (or both!), David Stiernholm is a ”struktör”. As such he helps people and companies become more efficient and productive by creating better structure. His motto...
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Do this to multitask less
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Do you tend to do many things at once, even though you know that it would be better to focus on ”that one, most important thing”? Done! No. 549 is about a simple, yet effective, trick for multitasking less and increasing focus on important tasks. Do you do something similar to what I have described here? Perhaps you are one of those people who, in the late afternoon, choose the three most important tasks for tomorrow. how you do it because I'm always curious to hear what tricks work well for others. . These episodes are also available as a weekly newsletter to your email. If you...
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Three ways to get a break between meetings
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In Done! episode No. 548: How to feel less stressed and focus better, despite having many meetings in a day. In the episode, I mention this blog post (or, video, rather) on how to add time buffers between meetings automatically: Do you have any additional tricks for getting air and breaks between your meetings? . This issue interests me right now, so I am all ears. Here is how to send tasks from OneNote to Microsoft To-Do: These episodes are also available as a weekly newsletter to your email. If you rather read than listen (or both!),
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How to create a to-do task from a chat message in Teams
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It is a clever move to create at to-do task from an email that means that you need to do something that you do not do immediately. But, did you know that you also can create a task from a chat message in Microsoft Teams? In this episode, the 547th, I share how it is done. Do you use another app for chats? How do you create to-do tasks from a chat message there. Few things bring me as much joy as simplifications like this and I want to keep learning about clever ways to structure our everyday lives, so I'm curious to hear what you have come up with. And, yes, time management works and it makes...
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When are you on manager’s schedule and when on maker’s schedule?
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Your work consists of plenty of tasks with varying characteristics. This 546th episode is about a planning concept from Y Combinator's Paul Graham that can help you create the optimal conditions for getting your different types of tasks done. Have you come across Paul Graham's concepts before and used them for your own planning? How? , because I always want to learn more tricks and methods that help me and those I help in turn to have smoother weekdays. Here is and everything is prioritized. These episodes are also available as a weekly newsletter to your email. If you rather read...
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When to have the chat open and when to close it
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Sure, you want to communicate with your colleagues in the chat and be available for them there, but sometimes you really need to work with full focus on other things. In this episode, the 545th, I share how to optimize your chat availability. What useful strategy do you have for when to have the chat open and when to keep it closed? . Understandably, this is a hot topic for many people, so I'm curious to hear your take on it. A talk about structure - ? These episodes are also available as a weekly newsletter to your email. If you rather read than listen (or both!),
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Identify your best remote tasks
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Have you been working from home partly or fully the last 2-3 years, as some of us have? In this episode, the 544, I share a way to build on your experience from the pandemic to better balance where you do your work. In the episode, I mention . What tasks have worked well from home and would you like to continue working remotely in the future? What have you liked about this year's changes and new ways of working? . I'm curious to hear what your experience has been like and what combination of working at the office and from home you have settled into now. I also found a study about . These...
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Four tricks to help you prioritize important, big tasks when the short ones feel tempting
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For some of us, short tasks tend to be prioritized first, before we choose to focus on the more extensive tasks. As a consequence, important tasks may be put off longer than we would wish they were. In this episode, the 543rd, I share how to get important tasks done well in advance. Do you have some other trick you apply to help yourself prioritize things you are reluctant to do? Perhaps you resort to the classic method of breaking the task down into smaller steps to make it easier to get through. Or, something completely different? and let me know. I'm curious to know what works for...
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