From the course: Productivity Tips: Using Technology

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Adapt your favorite productivity app

Adapt your favorite productivity app

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Adapt your favorite productivity app

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- Let's say you've got a favorite app or tool. How can you practice effective time management with that tool, whatever it happens to be? I often hear this question, yet I'd suggest it's not the most productive approach. It's best to first identify the principles of effective time management, and then look for the app or tool that will make it easiest for you to live those principles. This is because principles are timeless. They're the foundation of success and they don't change, regardless of the productivity tool that you're using. Yet technology, apps, devices, they change all the time. They're constantly being upgraded and updated. I have used many different types of calendars and note-taking apps over my career of practicing and teaching effective time management, yet the principles have always remained the same. So, if you're in control of the tools you use, first spend time learning the principles, such as going…

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