The best part about my Work Smart video series at Fast Company is that I get to cover my favorite, classic digital productivity problems with the latest and greatest solutions I know in a whole new medium.
In the past five installments I addressed some old and new issues any tech savvy digital worker encounters: keeping track of passwords, wasting time leaving and listening to voicemail, being a productive freelancer (or just work-at-homer), syncing files across all your computers, and, for fun, a few things you didn’t know your cameraphone can do. Hit play on any of the 2-3 minute segments inside.
Taming Your Voicemail in Two Easy Steps
Leaving voicemail and listening to voicemail is painful. There are some tricks for skipping right to the beep, and never having to suffer through a long-winded message from Uncle Bert again. Here’s the full video transcript.
Freelance Survival Skills
“How do you work at home and actually get things done?” It’s not easy, but in this video I share some of what’s worked for me. Here’s the full video transcript.
3 Useful Things You Didn’t Know Your Cameraphone Could Do
It’s amazing what your smartphone can do given apps and a great camera built in. Here’s the full video transcript.
A Single Trick for Remembering Countless Passwords
Every week you sign up for another site or service and have to set up yet another password. Pick good ones that are unique–without writing anything down. Here’s the full video transcript.
3 Apps for Syncing Home and Office
You use more than one computer at work and at home. Here are a few ways to make sure your files are where you need ’em. Here’s the full video transcript.
2 Comments
khabalox
I like the password pattern idea. I should implement that, as I have a lot of repeated passwords, especially at sites where security is not paramount (e.g. blogs). However, I’ve heard that using patterns based on keyboard location is not a good idea as some cracker programs utilize those patterns.
For more secure passwords, I would suggest a pattern where you intersperse the letters of the key word and site name (e.g. raombaot instead of robotama). That takes a lot longer to type (at least at first), but should be much more secure. Also, leet speak is your friend here. The only socially acceptable use of it, in fact.
Dan Gentry
Thanks for making these videos. They are both entertaining and informative.
I learn something new about Evernote each time I use it. I’ll try out the OCR feature soon.