Productivity requires both intelligent planning and focused efforts. Staying productive at work may be challenging for all. Each time task ends, odds are that you are not satisfied with the results. Everyone tries to squeeze more out of the time that they spend on tasks, but still it may not be sufficient. Time management is the biggest enemy when it comes to the productivity. Here are some best tech hacks for a productive day as compiled by The Economic Times.
#8 Learn Speed Reading
If your work requires you to read a lot to catch up what is going on around you and be it reading newspapers or browse endless information from internet, or reading journals, reports, periodicals and mails, then imagine what speed reading can do for you.
Most of the people can read with an average speed of 200 to 250 words per minute. Imagine if you could double your speed to 500 words per minute. Then you can utilize the remaining time for performing other tasks too. While reading we may sub- vocalize or pronounce the words to ourselves, which actually slows down reading. By eliminating sub-vocalization you can overcome the slow reading habits.You can try an Android app called Speed Reader or an extension called Speed on Google Chrome, or iOS app called Speed Reading.
#7 Break Reminder
We all work very hard all day sitting in front of the computer for a long time. But we never recognize how significant it is to step away from the system
and take a break. Break enables us to work more efficiently and it enhances our physical as well as mental health. An easiest way to do it without installing anything is making use of an online timer at www.onlineclock.net. Click on the link and set timer to remind you about the break for every 20 minutes. Set the reminder and return to your work but ensure that computer speakers are at ‘on’ mode.You can try apps like Countdown Timer for Blackberry and Android, and Simple Repeat Timer for iPhones.
#6 Speed Up Your Portable Devices and Computers
Most of your valuable time is consumed with a slow running phone or computer. You can add up those lost minutes to your productivity, if you own a faster running device.
Try Glary Utilities for Windows device to enhance speed and affix random crashes or freezes. For Mac device OnyX can be used, which will help fix errors in startup, clear caches and check files for problems. On an Android device you can try Clean Master, which will speed up programs by removing junk files, freeing RAM, and fixing system errors.
#5 Stop Notifications
If you are constantly distracted by the notifications such as emails, social networking and texts, you are never going to be productive at work. You will take a significant amount of time for checking the notifications that you receive on your mobile or computer. In order to enhance the productive hours, you have to employ methods by which you can minimize the distractions that stops you from staying focused.
You can install app like PushBullet on your portable device and the extension for your browser and you will get the pop-ups on your display by the browsers desktop notification system. By using PushBullet you can transfer data from desktop to mobile and vice versa that saves your time of using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or emails.#4 Automate the backup Procedure
All your data is not at all safe, if you are not backing up it properly. You need to have a multiple backup storage for your vital data. Data backing up can be done in two ways online and offline backups. Online backup needs a paid subscription for a backup service. Offline backups can be done with a flash drive or external hard drive. Using external drive you can have secured backups of all your data.
In order to automate the backup procedure, SyncBackFree and Corbonate software can be used. Synback is software that permits the users backing up and synchronizing the files to the same or different drives, to different media such as DVD, CD, Flash and Zip, or to a remote server. Corbonate is another backup service that takes the backups of documents, images, music, emails, and settings. Corbonate offers unlimited backup space for a fixed price rate of$59.99 per computer
#3 Automate routine tasks
You can rely on Trigger, the powerful app for Android, which uses certain events to carry out certain action. This enables you to simplify your life by automating your daily tasks. The main purpose of this app is to perform time tracking, task management and online invoicing.
Trigger helps you to open mail application automatically when you connect with your office Wi-Fi and automatically open Twitter or Facebook once you connect with home Wi-Fi.
#2 Find out Basic shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts can make the entire task much easier and quicker. For instance, rather than navigating through toolbar to copy and paste the
content to MS Word, try a combination of keys that complete the task within seconds. If you work on computer without having an idea of short keys, you are wasting the most significant part of your time. For a fast learning of the basic short cuts, you can make charts and pin it up in front of you. You have lots of printable shortcut chart available online; make use of the relevant shortcuts for your operating system.#1 Reduce Distractions
It doesn’t matter what you do or where you work, you come across lots of distractions at your work. All these distractions play a huge role in minimizing your productivity. While you read on some WebPages, distractions like fluorescent colors, bright banners and pop-ups may make you annoyed. Rather than browsing copious amount of time consuming resources, you can rely on web browser extensions. They can help you out to eliminate the entire distractions on the webpage and make the text readable.
You can use Easy Read for Firefox and Read Mode for Google Chrome. The StayFocusd web extension for Google Chrome is really helpful when you decide to limit the time you spend on a particular webpage or even the entire Internet. You can block the whole sites, paths or even block certain content and videos using these web extensions.
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