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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: An easy list for all your tasks

Organizing your lists doesn’t have to mean an ongoing commitment to over-organizing your tasks. This week’s tip comes from ashley.banks, who suggests a Smart List that catches tasks of all types, whether they have a due date or not! Several years ago, I shared a Smart List

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Contacting friends to stay in touch regularly

Keeping in touch with all your old friends seems like a daunting affair. However, with this week’s tip from eoe, you can set up a rotation to contact your friends with just an email per week! I have friends all over the world and it’s hard to keep

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking your daily routine

Keeping a daily routine can really help you get to the things you want to focus on. Making the routine though… that can be a lot of work! This week’s tip comes from amirmasoudabdol and shows an example routine that is streamlined for getting everything done without being nagged

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking what's in your freezer

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Tracking what's in your freezer

Buying extra groceries isn’t always a hassle, but freezer space can be precious. This week’s tip comes from jjcardil, who suggests keeping a list so you know what you already have. Whether you’re shopping for your cottage like they are or deciding how much ice cream and

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organizing destinations for a trip

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organizing destinations for a trip

When planning a trip, choosing sightseeing destinations can take a lot of effort. Let alone trying to remember that place you heard of years ago before you planned the trip! This week’s tip comes from radmoose, who suggests making a list of potential destinations and organizing them by city.

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Use quick searches to find stuff you have stored

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Use quick searches to find stuff you have stored

Whether it’s decorations, keepsakes, or just stuff you need to get rid of, it’s nice to store things “out of sight”. It’s not as nice to let them get “out of mind” though! This week’s tip comes from hwebbjr, who suggests keeping a quick index of

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organizing your tasks and your day as projects

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organizing your tasks and your day as projects

If you find yourself churning through your tasks on auto-pilot it may help to take a step back and to get some bigger-picture perspective. riazullah suggests this week reviewing your tasks and reorganizing them as projects for an easier overview… and possibly even a clearer idea about what to do

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping a running list for running errands

Errands can be a lot of work to plan and to get done, so anything that helps make them easier can go a long way! This week’s tip comes from stevenov who suggests keeping your errands tagged so they’re ready to look over at a glance while out

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Organize your recommendations from friends

After a brief summer hiatus, Tips & Tricks Tuesday returns this week! Getting a recommendation from a friend for a book, a movie or TV show, or some music or podcasts to enjoy is the best! But that doesn’t mean you get to it right away, right? 😅 To help

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Bob T. Monkey with his shopping

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Using email to help track your online shopping

Online shopping can be a surprising amount of work: keeping up with payments, shipments, and bids. In this week’s tip, countdiso shares a nice series of steps to keep up with all manner of shopping via emailed tasks. I’m a bit of a bad lad for buying things

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Bob T. Monkey prepares to move house

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of moving boxes before a move

Planning a big move can be difficult to coordinate, even with the help of movers. In this week’s tip, chashmish shares three lists to keep track of what goes where and when so everything is in place when the movers arrive. I’m in the middle of a cross-country

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Bob T. Monkey thinks about the fate of his tasks

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Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Decide the fate of your tasks

If you ever worry about a stack of old tasks that you haven’t dealt with, this week’s tip might help you clear those out. fant suggests a staged approach, deciding with tags about tasks before finally axing them if you never get to them. “To shrug it all

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