{"id":75,"date":"2008-12-08T05:54:52","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T05:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2015-11-02T21:13:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T02:13:51","slug":"free-productivity-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/productivity-tips\/free-productivity-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Productivity Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-opt-id=1273186772  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/mlsfkhvpsenu.i.optimole.com\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/f:best\/ig:avif\/http:\/\/www.sherylschuff.com\/images\/general\/Clock-64.png\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>Could your productivity use a boost? These tools and services are some of my personal favorites. They&#8217;re all FREE.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Viewer<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> lets you peek into your text, image, multimedia, and HTML files. You can see what&#8217;s inside them without actually opening them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortkeys.com\/lite.htm\">Shortkeys<\/a> is a utility that allows you to set up replacement text for portions of text that you define. You set up an abbreviation to represent the section of text that will be substituted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bluemars.org\/clipx\/\">ClipX<\/a> is a Windows clipboard manager: a tiny program that runs in the background, capturing and managing your clipboard entries, allowing you to keep 25 of them active at all times. Great if you do a lot of cut-and-paste in your writing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evernote.com\/\"> Evernote<\/a> is a note-taking, picture-capturing, voice-recording, handwriting-recognizing memory service that lets you capture, organize, and (most importantly) <strong style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">FIND<\/strong><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\"> all your important stuff. The CEO of the company calls it your &#8220;external brain.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.primopdf.com\/\">Primo pdf<\/a> lets you create pdf files optimized for screen, print, ebook, or pre-press and includes the ability to password protect files. This is what I use to send payroll data and reports to my clients.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rememberthemilk.com\/\">Remember The Milk<\/a> is a full-featured task list organizer and priority setting tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/calendar.google.com\/\">Google Calendar<\/a> is an on-line service that lets you easily manage your calendar and share it with others (this is optional). You can synchronize it with your computer desktop, mobile phone, and other applications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BTW, I also post additional references on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sherylschuff\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> almost every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could your productivity use a boost? These tools and services are some of my personal favorites. They&#8217;re all FREE.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Viewer lets you peek into your text, image, multimedia, and HTML files. You can see what&#8217;s inside them without actually opening them.<\/p>\n<p>Shortkeys is a utility that allows you to set up replacement text for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","tve_updated_post":"","tve_custom_css":"","tve_user_custom_css":"","tve_globals":{},"tcb2_ready":0,"tcb_editor_enabled":0,"tve_landing_page":"","_tve_header":"","_tve_footer":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[88,33,31,56,67],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity-tips","tag-ezine","tag-productivity","tag-small-business","tag-solopreneur","tag-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherylschuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}