Tag: Tips And Tricks

Find the Right Software, Wow Reporters and Never Forget an Appointment

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Get Shift Done Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Non-Techie’s Guide to Finding and Choosing Online Software


It’s easy to become overwhelmed when trying to find, evaluate and select online software for your business. That’s why I’ve created this six-step guide.

This process uses your specific business needs as a filter to cut through the noise and distractions so you can focus-in and find the right online software solution time-and-time again. Check it out…

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How to Turn Google Calendar into an Information Hub

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Risky Business, Hard Conversations and Getting Locked Out

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Get Shift Done Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 19, 2017

S&*!t! I’m Locked Out By Google Authenticator and I Can’t Get In!


It’s great to depend on Google’s authentication system to confirm your identity on an online application’s website — until it doesn’t work. If you’ve ever been locked out of your own life, here’s how to work around that conundrum.

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Evernote Gets Crufty — Use Advanced Search to Get Through It All

Instead of searching through hundreds of saved notes, you can find what you’re looking for more easily by using Evernote’s search filters.

The Risky Business of Innovation

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How to Avoid Being a Slacker, Create Great Social Media Graphics, and Be Persuasive

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Get Shift Done Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 12, 2017

7 Slack Tips That’ll Keep You From Being a Slacker at Work (Yeah, We Went There)


Slack has become a hub for the modern workforce, the go-to tool to Get Shift Done. There’s a lot more to Slack than you might realize, though, and we’ve been helping our readers get most out of it to be more productive in their day-to-day work. Click here for a roundup of our top 7 articles about Slack from the past few months.

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How to Create Attention-Grabbing Social Media Graphics Using Adobe Spark Post

A great new online tools for creating cool attention-grabbing graphics for social media is Adobe Spark Post — and it’s free to use. Here’s how it works — and how easy it is to create a graphic suitable for sharing on social media.

Your Boss is Wrong? Here’s How to Tell Them Without Getting Fired

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9 Google Docs Tips You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

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Google Docs is a powerful tool that enables users to write from anywhere, collaborate in real time, and ensure their work is always saved and backed up.

All for free.

Most users, however, barely scrape the surface of what’s possible with Google Docs. In Get Shift Done, we’ve been revealing little-known tips & tricks for getting the most out of Docs, and in this post we’ll share the 9 stories our readers loved the most.

1. How to Get Google Docs, and Other Apps, to Read to You

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Compose Gmails With One Click

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When you’re heads-down working and want to avoid the distraction of your incoming email, you can use this tip to send outgoing emails without entering your inbox. The trick: create a browser bookmark that takes you directly to Gmail’s “Compose Email” window without first passing through your inbox.


  1. Start by copying this link: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&source=mailto&to=add-addresses@gmail.com
  2. Next paste the copied link into the your browser’s address bar (1).
  3. Then, hit the enter or return key and it will open the Compose Email page.
  4. Finally, add that compose page as a bookmark. To do so in Chrome, click the little “add bookmark” star at the far right of the address bar (2). You can see that I have mine on the main bookmark bar (3) for easy access:


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Calendar Tips from Google, Herding Introverts and a Visit From Eisenhower

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Get Shift Done Weekly Roundup: Thursday, January 5, 2017

4 Hidden Google Calendar Tips From The Pros to Use in 2017


We asked the team at Google to give us their best tips for making your year more productive using Google Calendar. Click here to discover some lesser known tools that they shared with us and how to get started using them.

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Forget the Fancy Scanner and Save Your Receipts in Evernote

Keeping track of expenses is a hassle, plain and simple. You can buy special scanners or box them up and ship them off to different services to scan. Or, you can just sign up for Evernote.

Shut Up and Listen and Other Lessons on How to Manage Introverts

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