Templates can be a clever time-saving tool in your productivity tool belt, if you know where they are in your productivity system, as well as create and use them wisely. Today, we’re discussing what a template is (or, rather, how you should use them to their best advantage), what types of templates we use in our own productivity system, and how to overcome some common obstacles in making templates in your productivity software work for you.
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In this Cast | Making Templates in Your Productivity Software
Ray Sidney-Smith
Augusto Pinaud
Art Gelwicks
Francis Wade
Show Notes | Making Templates in Your Productivity Software
Resources we mention, including links to them, will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context.
* Evernote* Trello* Asana* Remember the Milk* Microsoft Word (Normal.dot, Normal.dotx; you can create your own DOTX file templates), Google Calendar (duplicate events)* Android personal dictionary* Tasker (Android)* OneNote* Notion* SharePoint* IFTTT* Zapier* Power Automate* ActiveWords* TextExpander* Apple Text Replacements* Apple Shortcuts* What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith, PhD* SkedPal Calendar Heat Map
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