Pitfalls To Avoid As A Newbie Managing Yourself: Grouping
Previously I have written on budget (time and money) and also on organising your email routine. I touched on basic tools needed and would like to share a little on browsing. I see you sit up and take notice this is not on how to surf the net.;-) but rather how to organize your various programs and activities into one dashboard for lack of a better descriptor.
I found it incredibly difficult to remember which programs and activities go together especially if I have not been working with them for a week or so. It would take me a half hour or so to fiddle around and eventually identify all of the bits and pieces that I need to have open to do the job for that day. Once again – time wasted and frustration levels raised.
I have found it very effective to use tabbed browsers. Whats this? A tabbed browser allows you to have multiple sessions open simultaneously and keeps them all in one place. In the first instance, this makes my desktop a lot tidier as I do not have a whole ream of Explorer icons filling up my power bar at the bottom of the screen.
Another real benefit of tabbed browsers...