Practice Tip: Record Audio While Taking Notes
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications on Feb 15th, 2009 | 8 comments
Audio Notes in Microsoft Word
It’s not often that I have something nice to say about Microsoft. That said, Microsoft Word is a pretty top-notch product, if a bit expensive. While I have pretty much abandoned Excel for Numbers, Microsoft Word is still my work horse for drafting correspondence and pleadings. I don’t use anything else in the Office suite of applications; and until Pages enables you to set the default document format as .doc, I will continue to use Word for my law firm documents because, like it or not, the rest of the world uses Word, and therefore .doc. (I will refrain from...
Efficient Email Notification from Mail.appetizer
Posted by EsquireMac in Applications, Tweaks on Sep 28th, 2008 | 0 comments
Earlier this month, MacSparky wrote about freeing himself from the bondage of email notification. TechnoEsq wrote about email actually being a distraction from work.
Finis Price (TechnoEsq) says:
a study done by Dr. Thomas Jackson of Loughborough University in England, found that “it takes an average of 64 seconds to recover your train if thought after interruption by email…So people who check their email every five minutes waste 8.5 hours a week figuring out what they were doing moments before.” While most people claim to check their email every 15 minutes, when actually studied, the average...
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