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Alternative Time Management, Part 1: The Importance of Sleep

by Harri Jussila · 1 comment

The Importance of Sleep - in a Pie Diagram

Alternative Time Management is a series of blog posts discussing different alternative ways to improve your time management. This post is Part 1 in that series. Acknowledging the importance of sleep is a good example of an indirect way to improve your time management.

Do It for Your Time Management

This first alternative time management advice is so ordinary that some might think it is naive: Sleep More! Click to continue…

Desktop/Outlook Search Add-In: Three Tools for Finding Lost Items Fast

by Harri Jussila · 0 comments

How to Quickly Find Emails or Files that You Really Need, When They Appear Lost?

I am sure all of you are all familiar with the situation… You have lost an email or file, and you just can’t find it. Where the heck is it?

You’re in a need of a proper Desktop or Outlook search. The Mac has Spotlight search built right in, but how about Windows?

Unfortunately, the search function in Windows Outlook has been crippled since many versions back. It really amazes me how slow and clumsy it is, causing extra jamming and frustration in moments when you just would like to find something fast.

Trying to find files in Windows is a different story. There exists some kind of a desktop search function built in Windows, but it doesn’t come even close to the built in Spotlight feature, offered by Macs. I am not interested to look at a dog animation, when I want to have lightning-fast  search results.

So, Windows still isn’t strong in search, and there exists a gap to be filled by third party search utilities. Someday, this will most probably change, but this is the situation now. Outlook 2010 definitely shows improvement. However, it still doesn’t quite make it.

Google filled the gap for a while by offering their version of a desktop search for Windows. Unfortunately, this product has been discontinued. Secondly, and this is my opinion, I never liked the interface offered by Google.

We will now take a look at three currently available desktop/Outlook search solutions: Lokeen, X1, and Copernic. Click to continue…

Dragon NaturallySpeaking – Can This Software Make You More Effective?

by Harri Jussila

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.5 Review Voice recognition has developed a lot during the last 10 years. One of the software available today is called Dragon NaturallySpeaking, by Nuance Technologies. The software is now in its 11th version. In fact, the version I am using now is 11.5. Traditionally, this kind of software has been associated with [...]

Time Management Strategies: The Three Basic Approaches

by Harri Jussila

Is Everything Called Strategy, Really a Strategy? I have seen many articles that judging by the headline claims to deal with the concept of time management strategies. Most of them fail to touch the subject very deeply. Instead, they are just random ramblings about general time management, where the word strategy is used as a [...]

Computer Backup: A Planned Strategy Could Save You Time

by hjussila

Your hard disk just died, what do you do now? What is Your Backup Strategy? A few months ago I played with the following idea: what would happen if I would completely loose, forget somewhere, or break my personal laptop computer? This thought play was induced by the fact that I actually thought I had [...]

How to synchronize bookmarks? With Xmarks.

by Harri Jussila

Synchronizing Bookmarks: The Why I use regularly three different computers. On each computer I have at least two or three web browsers, like Firefox, Chrome, and IE (or Safari, on the Mac). So, when I find a super cool web site I want to remember later, I can never be exactly sure how well I [...]

Working When Sick Is Not Healthy

by Harri Jussila

My Story This week I was ill. Yes, I got some kind of spring flu. I have no idea from where it came, it just did. It’s seldom the right time to get sick. Being sick made me realize a few things. The first thing I had to realize was that C-vitamin does not always [...]

How to Improve Your Memory, Part I

by Harri Jussila

Tricks, but No Quick Help Tricks About fifteen years ago I got my first touch of mnemonics – learning techniques that aid memory – when I read Harry Lorraine’s book called “The Memory Book”. Before that I had never really heard about the more advanced techniques used for remembering things better. But I had used some self-invented [...]

Time Management: Our Definition

by Harri Jussila

Time management is a very valuable skill in today’s society. But what is it, really? Most of us are constantly trying to cope with an increasing number of requirements, commitments, and interests. How should this be handled? Is time management the answer?

24 Most Meaningful Time Management Quotes

by Harri Jussila

Time Management Quotes with Meaning I wanted to have a look at time management quotes, so I did. Please find below a collection of the 24 most meaningful time management quotes that I stumbled upon. Comments in blue. Nature of Time Time is an interesting element, isn't it? It is impossible to control, and most [...]

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