Note to all, this reflects MY situation, needs and personality. I'm ain't sayin's its the bestest for you'se
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After work yesterday I had two shops at a mall downtown. Now, the traffic out of downtown is miserable until around 6 or 6:30, so I set in my mind I would do my shops, buy some shoes, maybe get haircut and linger around until 6:30 then mosey on out avoiding traffic he!!.
My shops finished fast, I bought my shoes quickly and couldn't get in to get my hair cut. So at 5:45 I was sitting in the mall wondering what I was going to do. Then I had a brainstorm; "Why not finish my reports on my iPad?"
I didn't want to do it in the middle of the mall, so I went to the truck, climbed in and logged on.
Thanks to the iPad's speech-to-text ability, the narratives went really quickly and I finished the reports much sooner than I would have at home. I thought about why that might be and I figured there were fewer distractions sitting in the parking lot than at my desk. Also, I can speak faster than type so the narrative went faster as well.
So that's my new "thing", now. I'll write up the report on my iPad immediately after the shop, submit it and be done with it.
-Always looking for good productivity hacks!-
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Mike T
Looking for shops in Western Canada
"Life is good because the alternative is forever "