Author: Dave Edwards
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A Little Planning Boosts Productivity
Managing your time takes more than a vague sense of priorities or a simple list of tasks. It demands a consistent, ritualized process that keeps you focused and aligned with your daily goals.
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Take Control of Your Evernote Home Screen
Evernote’s home screen is more customizable than ever—are you using it to its full potential? A few quick tweaks can boost your productivity and streamline your workflow. Learn how to personalize your layout, optimize your sidebar, and make the most of widgets like tasks and the scratch pad.
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Book Notes: Bushido – The Samurai Code of Japan
Book Notes Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan Inazo Nitobe 2019 – Tuttle Publishing – 192 pages Dave’s Summary I loved this book. So many life lessons. “Bushido: The Samurai Code of Japan” explains the values and way of life that guided Japan’s samurai class. Written by Inazo Nitobe, the book shows how samurai lived by…
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How To Find A Great Job
Finding a job takes effort and strategy. You can’t rely on one method. You need to explore several different paths. The best approach combines online tools, personal connections, and direct outreach.
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The Hidden Stress of Virtual Meetings (And What You Can Do About It)
We seem to be spending more time on video calls, yet for many of us, they don’t seem as productive as in-person meetings. Here’s how to deal with the ‘curse of the video call.
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Evernote’s Latest Features: PDF Annotation, Transcription & More
What would a week be like without changes to Evernote? In this episode.. There have been changes in the way you can edit a PDF. The images toolbar has changed…some changes to the transcribe button …and more Plus, a viewer question about downloading files.
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Why Your Online Meetings Aren’t Working—And How to Fix Them
We’ve all been in online meetings that aren’t effective. There are problems with communicating with each other, technical problems, and distracted participants. Leaders need to follow strategies to help.
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Using Shortcuts in Evernote
While the primary tools in Evernote are notes and notebooks, the ability to create shortcuts will streamline your workflow.
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Prioritizing Your Tasks
How do you decide what to do next when faced with many tasks? David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done, offers an answer.
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The Latest Evernote Update: Create Your Perfect Daily Note Template
Evernote just got another upgrade! Today, we’re diving into the latest update, including how to customize your Daily Note to fit your workflow perfectly. No more generic templates—you now have full control over your daily planning inside Evernote. Plus, we’re answering two big viewer questions: How does Evernote compare to Microsoft OneNote? And what happens…
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How to Stop One Person from Dominating Your Meeting
Meetings are meant to be collaborative discussions, but sometimes a person dominates the conversation, which means that others don’t participate. Such behavior can destroy a meeting’s effectiveness unless it is addressed.
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How To Handle Email Overload
While email is one of the world’s great inventions, its volume can slow down workflows. David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done, has some thoughts on how to handle email overload.
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Evernote Updates You Need to Know: Comments, Spaces & Mobile Upgrades
Evernote continues to work to give us more ways of collaborating and changing text in its app.
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The Secret to Productive Meetings: Strategies Every Leader Must Know
Want to make your meetings more meaningful and productive? Let’s take a look at the key steps to ensure your meetings are worth everyone’s time.
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Evernote Productivity Hack: Open Multiple Notes in New Windows
While working in Evernote, if you want to see the contents from multiple links, you can open them in new windows.
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Are Some People Better at GTD Than Others?
While the Getting Things Done methodology is practiced by people worldwide, some insist it is too restrictive and stifling. Its author, David Allen, disagrees. But does that mean that certain types of people are likely to accept the GTD concepts?
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Helping Your Team Find Purpose
In today’s workplace, employees seek more than just a paycheck; they want to feel inspired, connected to a greater purpose, and see the tangible impact of their work. When leaders succeed in fostering this sense of purpose, employees are more engaged, innovative, and productive.
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Latest Evernote Updates: Templates, Spaces, Sidebar & Upload Folders
Evernote continues to roll out new features, making it easier than ever to customize your workflow. From improved template accessibility—including the ability to pin your most-used templates—to new ways of formatting headers, these updates are designed to boost your productivity. Plus, Evernote has finally clarified the differences between spaces, notebooks, and stacks, making sure you…
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Do We Need This Meeting?
Most of us spend a lot of time in meetings. Yet many of them accomplish very little. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
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Getting Things Done for Students
While we commonly think of the “Getting Things Done” techniques working for the office professional, students might benefit from the same systems.
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Working Too Many Hours
There’s a good chance you find yourself working many hours and feeling like life is passing you by. Even the most organized productive person feel stress.
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Declutter Evernote: Merging & Deleting Notes
If you have several notes in Evernote that are related you may want to merge them into one.
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6 Tips To Get Control Of Your Time
If you are stressed with an ever-growing to-do list, it might be tempting to throw up your hands and surrender to the demands of your work. Some simple time management tools could help you deal with your feeling overwhelmed.
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Find A Leadership Style That Works For You
Choosing the right management style can significantly impact employee performance and workplace success.
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David Allen Shows Us His Reference Files
Having the information you need when needed is core to the GTD – Getting Things Done system. GTD creator David Allen shows us his reference system and discusses why it is not digital.
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Taking Back Your Time: A Smarter Approach to Meetings
It’s time to rethink our approach to meetings because they can be unproductive and waste time.
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Pub Media Boards Must Help With Fundraising
Successful public media stations need the help of their board members with fundraising. Yet, some board members don’t want to do it. Here is an approach that might work.
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The Evernote Helper
Using Evernote can streamline your workflow, and a helper feature can help you add information to your system even when using another app.
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How To Be A Stoic
The book How To Be A Stoic” is part of the Great Idea series from Penguin Books. This volume includes the work of Epictetus (Enchiridion), Seneca (On The Shortness of Life), and Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
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Why Your Emails Aren’t Returned Promptly
It can be frustrating when people don’t return your emails. Some of the reasons may be your own fault! Here’s how to get a better rate of return on your email messages.
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5 Tips For Being A Leader..Not Just A Manager
There’s a good chance that you got your managerial job because someone saw you as having leadership potential. However, not all managers become effective leaders. Here are 5 tips to become a leader.
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Getting Things Done While Traveling
It’s difficult enough to remain productive on a daily basis, but when you are traveling, it can be even more challenging. But there are ways you can stay on track.
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Helping Others as a Path to Personal Growth
Your ability to grow professionally may depend partly on your willingness to help others.
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Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms
Artificial intelligence (AI) integration into all aspects of our society is happening rapidly. That includes journalism and public media newsrooms. Journalists now have a new set of tools at their disposal. But it also raises important questions about ethical use, accuracy, and the potential impact on journalistic practices.
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Sneak Peek Into Future Evernote Features
Evernote has seen many changes and improvements in recent months. But now, we get a preview of what’s in the works for the future. Plus, recent changes to templates and the slash command.
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Tips for Improving Your Concentration
One of the most significant obstacles to productivity is our inability to concentrate. Today, we look at ways to improve your concentration.
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Important Skills For New Managers
Becoming a manager for the first time is never easy. You likely got your promotion because you were good at your job. Now, you must shift from peer to supervisor and figure out your new role.
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Cheating The GTD System
How rigidly do you have to follow David Allen’s Getting Things Done to achieve maximum productivity? Well, David seems to be pretty relaxed about the concept.
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How to Humanely Announce Layoffs
Hardly a week passes without news of mass layoffs across the country, and the media industry is no exception. For leaders, delivering layoff announcements is one of the toughest responsibilities—but there are ways to do it with greater empathy and care.
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Two Systems, One Life: Should You Separate Work and Personal Productivity?
I am occasionally asked whether it is best practice to have two productivity systems: one for work and one for your personal life. Both approaches have advantages and challenges.
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The Latest Updates From Evernote
Another week and more changes in Evernote. Plus a viewer question about what to do with notes that you can’t part with
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Are You Burned Out?
Are you feeling burned out and thinking that there is no hope for your current situation? Here are five things to help alleviate that feeling and center yourself again.
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Learning How To Coach Your Employees
Many managers believe they are coaching when, in reality, they are merely instructing employees on what to do. True coaching, however, is about helping individuals realize their potential by guiding them toward solutions rather than providing all the answers.
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Maintaining Your Project List
How many items are on your project list? Some people worry that they have too many projects. But it is more important to have the right kind of projects.
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Public Media Stations Need A Legislative Strategy More Than Ever
With Congress and many legislatures threatening to end government funding for public broadcasting, a legislative strategy is more important than ever.
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Beat Back Procrastination
If you feel that you can’t stay on task and get easily distracted there are some things you can do to help yourself become more productive.
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Evernote’s New Template System
For quite some time, Evernote has allowed you to create templates or use some they made. But it wasn’t all that user-friendly, and it was limited. That’s changed.
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Boosting Concentration Boosts Productivity
There are all sorts of causes for us to lose concentration. But when that happens, our productivity falters, and we get a reputation as someone who doesn’t care. But there are some simple ways to train your brain to pay more attention.
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Evernote Basics: Customizing The Sidebar
In our continuing series, in which we share how to set up and use Evernote’s different features, we look at how you can customize to reduce clutter and make important elements more visible.
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