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Clean Up Files Fast: Organize Your Online Storage With These 7 Simple Steps
Organize your messy files and folders with this foolproof strategy.
How to Choose Backup Services and Software You'll Actually Use
These quick, smart strategies for backing up your data are designed for people who are lazy, perfectionists, or somewhere in between.
Everything You Need to Set Up an Ergonomic Home Office
Any workspace, including a home office, should be a safe and healthy place to work. These tips can help you make inexpensive adjustments to stay productive, comfortable, and injury-free.
Tired of Airplanes and Cars? Download These Apps for Bus and Train Travel
If your next trip can be done by rail or bus, these are the best apps to compare prices, routes, total travel time, and carriers.
Return to Sender: How I Unsubscribed From Catalogs and Stopped Junk Mail
I set out to cancel all the catalogs and marketing mail that I got over the course of about six weeks. Here's what happened, including the method that worked best.
Workers Are Anxious About Hybrid WorkâHere's How Employers Can Get It Right
Is your workplace on a 'return to office' kick? It's so easy for employers to get it wrong, but not that hard to get it right.
15 Tips to Make Meetings More Accessible for Everyone
Adding closed captioning is one good step, but there's much more you can do to make virtual meetings better for everyone involved.
How to Choose What to Work on First
Tackle an easy win early in the day? Follow the 'eat the frog' strategy? Our productivity expert says there's one way to start your work day that's better than the rest.
How to Take Better Breaks to Boost Your Productivity
Taking breaks is necessary, but when working from home there's a fine line between a productivity-boosting rest and procrastinating. Here's what you need to know to recharge right.
The Top Tech and Tools You Need for Taking Digital Notes
These are the best note-taking apps and accessories for annotating PDFs, sketching diagrams, recording your next class lecture, and more.
How to Make Remote Collaboration Work for You
Remote collaboration methods give people more ways to participate, and that tends to bring out the best in their work. You don't even have to be a remote worker to use these tricks.
Hide Your Texts to Protect More Than Juicy Gossip
Allowing text messages to show on your phone's lock screen is a gateway for snoops, hackers, and thieves. Luckily there's a way to fix it, and we're here to show you how on Android and iOS.
This Meeting Should Have Been an Email: 5 Steps to Improve Workplace Communication
Your mode of communication is just as important as the message. Rethinking how you communicate at work can lead to vastly better results.
Beyond the Lesson Plan: 5 Surprising Tips to Master a New Language
One tip they definitely don't teach you in class: You should never be too successful when learning a new language. Here's why.
11 Tips to Being More Productive and Efficient in the Short and Long Term
Protect your most productive hours, curb distractions before they start, and master the art of efficiency with these pointers.
Sit All Day for Work? This Is the Best Way to Break the Cycle
What does brushing your teeth and wakefulness have to do with learning to move more during the workday? It's all about habit.
10 Business Travel Tips You Probably Forgot Since Your Last Trip
Avoid a travel horror story by brushing up on how to prepare for a smooth business trip.
How to Poll Your Team (and Encourage Open Feedback)
When's the best time to meet? Is our weekly meeting too long, too short, or just right? Don't use email to ask these questions! Use a polling tool insteadâand improve team communication in the process.
Are You Bad at Bullet Journaling? Try These Digital Alternatives
Use an app to create an attractive and orderly journal, no artistic talent required.
How to Make Emergency Documents for Your Home and Business
Whether you're managing an office, renting your place on Airbnb, or simply needing a household plan, there are a host of reasons to create emergency documents. Learn how to make some of the most common ones.
