We all want to work smart, right? Here are a bunch of things we've learnt from our
own experiences, and some that have only just occurred to us. Control The Future. If you want to remind yourself of an event in the future, send yourself an e-mail! Time Machiner is an online service that lets you send yourself an e-mail at a future date. Just visit the site, choose a date, and type the e-mail. The shock of receiving an e-mail from your past self will likely be enough to make the event or task register in your mind.



SMS Reminders
ItiI If you're a Google Calendar user, you can get it to send you event reminders by SMS-just go to Settings > Mobile setup to set up your phone number. Nearly all Indian mobile providers are supported, anc;l it's free!

Nota Bene
The first step to increasing your productivity is to take notes whenever a noteworthy idea strikes you. You could turn to good old Notepad (we've been there), or install one of the billion "sticky notes" applications available on the Web. The drawback with these approaches, however, is the fact that notes you take at home won't come to the office with you, and vice versa. The most hassle-free solution, we've found, is Yahoo! Notepad. Install Yahoo! Widgets and activate only the Yahoo! Notepad Widget (not that there's any¬thing wrong with activating others) on all the PCs you'll be using. When an idea strikes you, jot it down in the widget, and forget about it. The widget uploads this note to your online Yahoo! Notepad, and you can now access it from anywhere! We assume, of course, that you have Internet access at the aforementioned locations, otherwise this is admittedly pointless.