Handling Information Overload Workshop

September 21, 2009

Read the Harvard Business Review’s Death by Information Overload

Less is More!

iGoogle
Delicious
LastPass
Organizational Schemes
- Getting Things Done
- 43 Folders
- Writing Stuff Down
- Molskine Demo
Email
- Inbox Zero
  - Merlin Mann
  - Merlin Mann’s Google Talk on Inbox Zero
- auto-redirecting messages to folders
- creating an e-mail DMZ
- 5 rules to empty your inbox
- emptying inbox flags and rules
- treat your inbox as a to-do list
- the “Trusted Trio” for emptying your inbox
ToodleDo
Data Backup and Synchronization
- get a good, cheap, highly-rated external hard drive (Newegg provides useful data)
- practice using your drive with some test data (a copy of unimportant files)
- delete test data from your computer and find out how you are going to get it back, seriously
- Once you are satisfied that you understand the nuances of the routine and scheduling, back everything up
- finally, ask yourself what would happen if your computer and the backup were compromised simultaneously
Useful Websites:
- http://lifehacker.com/
- sentence.es