organization
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How To Clean Your Overwhelmed Gmail Inbox (By Hand)
1There comes a time when enough is, quite simply, enough. I had been putting off the task of organising my sprawling Gmail inbox for months, if not years. But when Lifehacker told me that we were going to have a Spring Cleaning week, I knew it was time. And I wasn’t going to waste precious…
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Try A To-Do List That Lives In Your Tabs
For everyone subscribed to the philosophy of GTD, myself included, task managers are essential to managing the process digitally. Of course, they’re only useful if you actually use them, as evidenced by the trail of task managers I’ve left in my wake as I search for one with the right combination of cross-platform access, easy…
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‘One File Box Per Kid, One Folder Per Year’ Is The Back-To-School Shopping Rule You Need
At the beginning of the school year, every writing assignment, certificate and work of art that your child brings home is a sweet thrill, a memento to hold onto for years to come. But then, soon enough, your house is flooding with papers, and it’s only November, dangit.
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You Must Get Started On Your Swedish Death Cleaning
Photo: Brad.K Exciting news: There’s a new organisational how-to in town. Look out, Marie Kondo, and make way for The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family From a Lifetime of Clutter. The author, Margareta Magnusson, who is “somewhere between 80 and 100,” started the process of cleaning out…