Your day to day
The inbox, tasks, notifications and search: what you open every morning.
Inbox and notifications
- Where to start each morningStart hereFive minutes that order the day, in the order that works.
- The day something is downStart hereWhat you can carry on doing, what to postpone, and what NOT to do.
- Logging in only once a weekStart hereNot everyone lives in here. Whoever logs in on Fridays needs to see something different from the daily user.
- The daily digestStart hereOne email a day with what is there, instead of forty separate alerts.
- Making alerts worth readingGoing furtherToo many alerts is the same as none: people stop reading them.
- When they reply on WhatsApp instead of using the linkGoing furtherIt happens constantly, and dropping the document into a chat has a cost.
- The work nobody ownsGoing furtherWhat has no owner appears in nobody's inbox, which is why it surfaces late and always from outside.
Tasks and calendar
- Tasks: what the system will not do for youStart hereFor what depends on a person rather than a document.
- Coming back from holidayStart hereThree weeks away and two hundred things waiting: where to start.
- Planning the week in fifteen minutesStart hereFour checks on Monday that prevent Thursday's emergencies.
- When almost everything waits on someone elseStart hereHalf your list does not move because it is not up to you. How to handle that without living in pursuit.
- Closing a file properlyStart hereFinishing the work and closing the file are two different things, and hardly anyone does the second.
- Sharing work across a teamGoing furtherGiving every case an owner, and what happens when that owner is away.
- Living with the old systemGoing furtherFor a few months you will have two places. How to manage without duplicating work or losing things.
- Delegating without losing controlGoing furtherSharing out the work and still knowing how it is going, without asking every day.
Finding things
- Someone needs a document right nowStart hereFinding it and sending it properly, with a client or an inspector waiting.
- The half-hour tidy-up each monthStart hereWhat degrades by itself if nobody looks, and how to fix it without a project.
- When what you need is not a documentStart here«When does it expire?», «what is the cover?». The answer is not a file: it is one line inside one.
- Saving what you check every weekGoing furtherIf you navigate to the same thing five times, it should be one click away.
- Finding something from years agoGoing furtherWhen you remember neither the name, nor the date, nor who uploaded it.