Use of Outlook for Task Tracking

If you are using Outlook at work, you can put Tasks in meeting as you progress with some notes to refer.

By doing this, you would be able to capture it along with other Meetings at single Place.

Don't forget to put down action items in meeting invite to make it better to recall.

Notes from Speed Reading Webinar

Read, Comprehension and Retain information for Technical Material

• Decide what you want to read and retain. Choose Good Books. You can plan as many subjects to read at a time as you may have ( 1 hour per day per subject) + Repetition times ( find when you can use in existing time)
• Keep Paper, Pen or other logistics suitable for reading handy
• Follow below MRP (Multiple Reading Process) -

1. Preview -  2 Mins
• Read Introduction and Summary
• Read questions if available
• Take notes to catch important phrases
2. Overview -Get Main Points - 5 Mins
• Read TOC, Heading/sub headings/bold faced words/Tips
• Read first sentence of each paragraph if article is short or no headings available
• Identify important sections where more details are required
• Add more phrases and links
3. Read using speed reading methods
• Read and recall only after section/paragraph and take short notes -key words 
• Limit 20 mins - 5 min breaks strategy
• When a diagram is referred, look at it
4. Repetition
• Read and Recall
• Create/Organize information - create question/answers, Lists, Mind Maps to revise
• Repetition using Notes spaced learning ( Try to Recall before peeking)
• Skim more articles to get general feeling of information and catching key words. Limit this to 15 minutes per session and add to existing notes or associate. More association in different ways ( doing, listening, talking, writing, reading more)
• Focus more on repetitions in mind than recreating whole notes
• Teach to others

Use of Phone for Habit Development

Now when we all are more hooked to our smartphones than ever, it would be good to use tools to check on your habits and build new constructive habits.

There is one application Logsit on App Store. Just create a List and add action items with/without reminders.
For change/track habits:

• Create action item like "checking whatsapp".
• Keep Whatsapp and this at same folder/location on phone
• Whenever you check Whatsapp, just do check in and see how frequently you check them. Same can be done for email checks.

For building habit:

• Create action item like "drink water" with reminder every 1 hour
• When reminder pops up, drink water and do check in

See over the period/day time how many time you were engaged in activity and become aware of them. Now you can decide what you want and build up or reduce on that habit.