In digital environments, it’s far less important to organize and file information correctly (which takes decision making and time) than it is to use Search to quickly find what you want. It’s liberating to have all your business and personal information in one place and be able to quickly find and edit any information you need when you need it, no matter what the device – or where you are!
Here’s why Evernote is the right technology for our times: it’s a single, unified Cloud repository for capturing, storing, tracking and sharing virtually any piece of information relating to your life or business lets you quickly and easily access your information from any location, any device, any time scan everything, including receipts and handwritten notes and search for specific words inside those scanned copies search inside Microsoft Office docs and
Business owners and managers should ask 4 questions of their employees a couple times a year – with the intention to tweak their systems and make improvements based on the answers. What do you want to do more of here? What do you want to do less of here? What mistakes keep happening here? What works here? All employees have good insight into day to day operations. Their input is
Know a few apps really well (and shortcuts) Brad Sayers Let me ask you: On your smartphone or computer, do you see icons that you never use? Why are they still there? Your brain needs to do micro calculations every time you look at that interface saying they are useless. It’s a tax to your brain system. Get rid of them. Being efficient is about removing barriers, bottlenecks and reducing
Many businesses disappeared in 2020 and 2021 because of Covid-19 and the constraints that followed. More will disappear in 2022. However – all the large tech companies greatly increased their profits during Covid because they were already operating in powerful digital cloud ecosystems. This allowed them to quickly pivot in light of new constraints. For them, operating in the cloud was business as usual. Adding ‘curbside service’ because of Covid does not
Remember the bad old days before the Cloud? It’s time to Set a New Direction! Doing business in the Cloud is business as usual today. The head is for having ideas, not holding them. David Allen David Allen’s big contribution to modern productivity was his book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity where he emphasized the need to use trusted, external cloud systems. A trusted, external system like
The challenge isn’t information overload, it’s ‘meaning underload’. Don’t burden yourself by thinking that you need to get more organized to keep on top. Let Evernote do the organizing in your life and business. It has powerful indexing and search abilities making it easy for you to access all your information from any device, from anywhere. It’s a game changer. And a life saver. Use it for: Any information you
In this day and age, if you’re not confused, you’re not thinking clearly Burt Mannis The brain is for having ideas, not holding them David Allen, Getting Things Done, 2001 It’s a digital world and Evernote is the tool we desperately need today to have control over growing amounts of information. Operating a small business is more difficult than ever because of technology and exponential change. And if you hate
Below are two videos. The first video (Formula 1) is such a good example of old school clunky workflows where people bumped into each other and wasted time and energy. In 1950, they had some technology but no artful way of working together. You will smile. Then in Melbourne, in 2013, it’s all Art! The second video is Thomas Friedman explaining how in 2007, the world changed overnight because of