If like me you grew up typing on proper keyboards, you may have gotten rather fast at it. Writing things down with pen and ink can seem unimaginably slow. But newer technologies can also seem…

There’s an artificial difference, I think, between calendars and to-do lists. Each one can replace the other — regardless of whether you’re using a smartphone, tablet, laptop, desktop PC, or even pen and paper. This…

There are people who spend lots of time thinking about ways to be more productive. In fact, sometimes they spend so much time on this that they actually get nothing done at all. This is…

I’ve used a lot of tools to keep my to-do lists — going way back to the pre-Internet days of using pen and paper. (Which I still use from time to time.) It amazes me…

Part of getting to the Holy Grail of an inbox with nothing in it means knowing what to do with an email that requires you to do something. Let’s say someone writes to you and…

I realize that the word “Google” is now a verb, and we all Google things now and then, but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are several reasons not to use Google, not…

Everyone struggles to cope with massive numbers of emails — but there are tried and proven ways to manage this and one of the oldies-but-goodies remains FIFO. That stands for First In, First Out. Or…

There are two basic rules about passwords on the Internet: 1 – Don’t use the same password more than once. 2 – Make sure the password isn’t an easily-guessable word.  Ideally, use a combination of…

Not long ago, a friend asked me if he should buy a copy of Microsoft Office for his new Windows laptop — or should he get a friend to give him a “free” (i.e., pirated)…