I rarely leave emails in my inbox for very long, and I can now snooze upcoming bills or other notifications that I need to remember, but not at the moment. Although, with the advent of snoozing emails in Gmail, I can really clean it out. This means I can do it all in about 2 minutes instead of having to devote a Saturday afternoon to cleaning out my Drive. I just save it in Drive so that it’s safe, and then I can move it where it needs to go later. This also has a dual effect: if I come across a document I want to save (see “Scan and toss paperwork” below”), I don’t have to think about organizing it at the time. After that, I go to my default Google Drive folder and do the same thing: organize what needs to be organized, delete what I don’t need to keep, and deal with files and documents before they sit for too long. Every day, I start by cleaning this one out. I take a lot of screenshots and deal with a lot of documents throughout the day, and my Downloads folder on my Chromebook can pile up very quickly. I like a clean computer where everything is filed away where I need it. One problem that gets me anxious is disorganization. Rather than just leave it at “End of Day Review”, these subtasks always bring to the forefront the important tasks that I have to do so I don’t gloss over them. This helps me check them off, one at a time, and be sure that I am consistently doing these specific tasks. Within the main task are a number of subtasks. Having it scheduled at 3:30pm gives me time to wrap up whatever I’m doing and get up to my office so that I can do this. My goal is to spend 10-15 minutes on it to end my day during the week, and then knock off so I can exercise at 4:00pm and then have dinner/hang out with my family. That means I get a notification on my phone, no matter where I am, telling me to do this task. In future posts, I’ll talk about my labels and all of those fun things, but right now, here are the highlights of this particular task and how it works in my life.įirst, it recurs every day at 3:30pm.
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