Archive for February, 2010

50 Ways to Organize Your Home, Part II

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Last week, this week and next week, I’ve decided to offer a sampling of my tips on how to simplify and organize your home. Mail Get rid of junk immediately. The best way to keep it from piling up is to never let [...]

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Open Loops 2/16/2009: Articles I Think Worth Passing Along

Posted on February 16, 2010 by

Tuesdays are open loop at SimpleProductivity blog. I don’t like a dirty bathroom. Yet I don’t want to spend hours making it clean. Tipnut has a great set of “10 Quick Tips For A Shiny Bathroom” that incorporates some of my favorites: shaving cream to clean shower doors, using toothbrushes [...]

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Software Review: Breevy Auto Text Replacer and More!

Posted on February 15, 2010 by

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. I dislike wasted effort. And since I spend most of my days (and nights) on a computer, typing the same thing over and over again is wasted effort. I’ve had long experience with text replacers over the past five years. I started with [...]

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How I Manage To Cook For My Family

Posted on February 12, 2010 by

Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog. A friend of mine was telling me that she had resorted to frozen dinners every night because she did not have time to cook. I thought about that, and decided that cooking and working outside the home were not mutually exclusive activities. After [...]

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8 Phone Applications that can Boost your Productivity

Posted on February 11, 2010 by

This is a guest post by Liz Cutten, who writes, and manages FINDbizcards, a small business blog . If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here. In today’s world, there’s no reason that you shouldn’t have a cell phone such as an Android based [...]

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50 Ways to Organize Your Home, Part I

Posted on February 10, 2010 by

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Over the next three weeks, I’ve decided to offer a sampling of my tips on how to simplify and organize your home. Kitchen Group like things together. Keep serving utensils in one place, silverware together, drinking vessels together. Keep things where they are [...]

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Launchy: The Must-Try Application Launcher

Posted on February 8, 2010 by

   I have been using Launchy for many months. It’s a great little application and saves me time every single time I use my computer.    Intro to Launchy Launchy is an application launcher. It will automatically figure out what applications are on your computer and with a (configurable) keyboard [...]

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Questions Your Mother Asked…Now for the Adult in You

Posted on February 5, 2010 by

Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog. I am a fan of Robert Fulghum (Books by Robert Fulgham), and his blog is one that usually has me thinking, and often chuckling. A few weeks ago he posted an article, “Reflection at Winter Solstice”, with the “Mother Questions” (sorry, the article [...]

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