Author: Ciara Conlon / Source: Lifehack
Need to get more efficient at work? Do you ever have enough time to get it all done?
If you are struggling to find the time to fit it all in, here are 15 productivity hacks that will help speed up your efficiency:
Email management
Let’s start with the chief productivity killer in most offices — emails.
1. Stop checking email first thing
If you want to drown in inefficiency, check your email first thing in the morning.
If you want to become more productive and efficient, eliminate this habit from your day.
Checking your email first thing in the morning puts you at the mercy of others. Take back the control and start your day with the tasks you have planned to do, not the ones someone else thinks you should do.
2. Turn off notifications
When you have your work planned out, you don’t want to be disturbed by an email notification in the bottom right of your screen.
Switch off all notifications. When you receive an email notification or any other type of notification, it disturbs your focus.
If you turn them off, you can have calm, undisturbed focus for as long as your brain will allow.
3. Batch process email
With the notifications turned off, go to your email a couple of times during the day when you have decided it’s time.
Let your emails build up so that you can process them.
Processing allows you to think clearly about which ones are top priority and which can be left until later. The way they arrive into your inbox is not the order of merit.
4. Unsubscribe to newsletters
Unsubscribe to as many newsletters as possible.
Let them clog up some other email inbox.If you really need to stay subscribed, subscribe under a different email address. This way, you reduce the number of emails coming into your work email address.
Software and apps organization
Now let’s get to the digital organization.
4. Use Sanebox for organized emails
Continuing on the subject of email, try out Sanebox to reduce the amount of emails that get into your inbox in the first place.
Sanebox uses algorithms to determine the importance of each email, and it moves unimportant messages out of the Inbox into a separate folder, and summarizes them for you.
The added bonus is that it works on any platform and has all the same functionality in the phone app too.
5. Use Activewords for faster output
such as Activewords to reduce time spent writing repetitive sentences.
Activewords can be used to launch programs, websites, Evernote notes and more. Saving minutes daily can add up to…
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