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How To Improve Your To-Do Lists

To-Do List improving tips

Achieving our goals while meeting deadlines is always harder than it seems. Juggling between work, family, hanging out with friends and other stuff can be very exhausting. At one point or another, every single one of us has wished for a 30+ hour day to get everything done.  

The key to success on days like that lies in good organization. We need to determine which tasks need our immediate focus and effort and which can be postponed. Whether you’re a CEO of a Fortune 500 company or a stay-at-home mom, in order to get something done you’ll have to deal with high priority tasks first and leave the minor ones for later down the road. This applies to everyone, we need to prioritize.  

How do people manage this? Easy, by making a To-Do list – in plain language, a list of tasks you intend to accomplish on any given day. A To-Do list is a great productivity tool for organizing your daily activities. Unfortunately, not everyone uses their To-Do lists to the fullest. There are pitfalls that you need to be aware of.

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How to Get Through Wednesday at Work – 5 Motivational Tips

Hump Day Tips

“On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
and I have nothing else to do,
I sometimes wonder if it’s true
That who is what and what is who.”

– Winnie the Pooh

Our childhood hero Winnie lives his life to the fullest. Friends, honey, adventure, poems… Winnie has it all. But, being what he is, an animated unemployed teddy bear living in a fairytale, Winnie doesn’t know what real struggle is – Wednesday at work.    

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4 Paperless Office Myths That Won’t Go Away

Paperless Myths Debunked

Some 50 years ago, offices were packed with shelves, cabinets, and folders containing all sorts of paper documents.

As businesses grew, so did their needs for:

  • physical storage space
  • people to handle document creation, archiving, and retrieval
  • expenses for maintenance and equipment

Workflows regarding document management became a nightmare with an ever-growing hunger for more resources.

Then, personal computers (PCs) entered the stage and made professionals dream of the time when all the documents will be created, stored, and searched digitally. In hopes of a more productive and automated office of the future, that dream was named “paperless office”.

Fast forward to present times–technology advanced greatly, but paper is still around. However, wondering why modern offices didn’t succeed in ditching the paper completely is a wrong question to ask. That’s because the term paperless office is often surrounded by a lot of myths and misconceptions.

Let’s see what things most people automatically assume when they think about the paperless office concept and why they are actually not true.

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3 Technology Trends That Will Drive Change in 2018

2018 Dominating Tech Trends

Another year has gone by and here at Investintech, we can proudly look back at 2017. Able2Extract Professional 12 was successfully released on December 6th after a year of hard work and commitment to delivering the best possible PDF productivity tool. All-around improvements and new features were steps in the right direction according to the feedback we’ve been getting from users all around the world.

That being said, the work is never over when you’re in the technology business. Exciting new possibilities and ideas are constantly emerging and you can bet that we’re on the lookout for those that can help us make yet another great piece of PDF productivity software in 2018.

While we are trying to find out how we can make Able2Extract even better, we’re inevitably getting a good sense of technological innovations that are emerging on the horizon. That’s why there’s no better time than the beginning of the year to make some educated guesses on what to expect when it comes to the impact and change technology will have on our lives.

2018 certainly promises to bring the biggest tech improvements and opportunities for individuals as well as companies that will drive that change forward.

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Then vs Now: Classroom Technology & Gadgets

Educational Technology Gadgets

In past decades, the rapid development of technology led to technological breakthroughs that shaped the world we live in.  Now, it is safe to say that technology has a major influence on our daily life and the way we use technology has completely transformed the way we live our lives.

Education is no exception. Some of the technological innovations forever altered our process of learning and education. Modern educators realize that in order for education to be purposeful and effective they need to embrace the trends and push the classroom doors wide open to new tech trends.

The use of technology in the classroom is no longer a matter of choice, but a necessity. Traditional ways of learning, in which the lecturer is the center of attention that transfers the knowledge are getting repulsive and uninteresting to students all around the world. Cutting edge learning gadgets and software brought an altogether new way of learning which enables scholars to be active participants in the educational process.

In our last post we explained how one productivity tool can make the difference between boredom and curiosity in the classroom. Now we take a look at some of the gadgets that are used to make time spent in the classroom more dynamic and fun.

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