How To Improve Your To-Do Lists

To-Do List improving tips

Achieving our goals while meeting deadlines is always harder than it seems. Juggling between work, family, hanging out with friends and other stuff can be very exhausting. At one point or another, every single one of us has wished for a 30+ hour day to get everything done.  

The key to success on days like that lies in good organization. We need to determine which tasks need our immediate focus and effort and which can be postponed. Whether you’re a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or a stay-at-home mom, in order to get something done you’ll have to deal with high priority tasks first and leave the minor ones for later down the road. This applies to everyone, we need to prioritize.  

How do people manage this? Easy, by making a To-Do list – in plain language, a list of tasks you intend to accomplish on any given day. A To-Do list is a great productivity tool for organizing your daily activities. Unfortunately, not everyone uses their To-Do lists to the fullest. There are pitfalls that you need to be aware of.

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How to Get Through Wednesday at Work – 5 Motivational Tips

Hump Day Tips

“On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
and I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it’s true
That who is what and what is who.”

– Winnie the Pooh

Our childhood hero Winnie lives his life to the fullest. Friends, honey, adventure, poems… Winnie has it all. But, being what he is, an animated unemployed teddy bear living in a fairytale, Winnie doesn’t know what real struggle is – Wednesday at work.    

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4 Paperless Office Myths That Won’t Go Away

Paperless Myths Debunked

Some 50 years ago, offices were packed with shelves, cabinets, and folders containing all sorts of paper documents.

As businesses grew, so did their needs for:

  • physical storage space
  • people to handle document creation, archiving, and retrieval
  • expenses for maintenance and equipment

Workflows regarding document management became a nightmare with an ever-growing hunger for more resources.

Then, personal computers (PCs) entered the stage and made professionals dream of the time when all the documents will be created, stored, and searched digitally. In hopes of a more productive and automated office of the future, that dream was named “paperless office”.

Fast forward to present times–technology advanced greatly, but paper is still around. However, wondering why modern offices didn’t succeed in ditching the paper completely is a wrong question to ask. That’s because the term paperless office is often surrounded by a lot of myths and misconceptions.

Let’s see what things most people automatically assume when they think about the paperless office concept and why they are actually not true.

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Bates Numbering 101: History, Usage and Tutorial

Bates Numbering 101

A Brief History

The Bates Numbering Machine (also known as the Bates Stamper) was invented in the late 19th century by Edwin G. Bates. Mr. Bates had one objective in mind – to simplify and increase the effectiveness of document identification and information retrieval.

Back in the old days, this was a manual process. Each page had to be hand stamped with the Bates Stamper in order to index the page with a four-digit sequence. Fortunately, with the transition from paper to electronic documents, this manual method was phased out. Now, thanks to the rise of technology, documents can be “stamped” with  Able2Extract.

Definition & Usage

Bates Numbering, also known as Bates Stamping, is an indexing method used for legal, business and medical documents (PDFs in most cases). Bates Numbers are perceived as digital reference points used to uniquely identify and label each page in a set of documents.  

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How to Use a Pivot Table in Excel

How to use Excel Pivot Tables

Typical MS Excel spreadsheet data appears in form of a table which consists of multiple columns and rows. Such tables can have millions of data cells, finding any significant meaning in them can be a Sisyphean task. If your daily job requires you to analyze and summarize key business metrics from huge data sets, information overload is inevitable.

How do you work around that? The most effective way is to use Excel Pivot Tables – a summarizing tool that can greatly simplify the process of refining your data and display results in a succinct and clear way.

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