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Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better (Paperback)
by Gina Trapani (Author)
Textbook Details
* Paperback: 480 pages
* Publisher: iley; 2 edition (March 17, 2008)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0470238364
* ISBN-13: 978-0470238363
* Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
* Rating: 
Textbook Description
Whether youre a Mac or Windows user, there are tricks here for you in this helpful resource.
Youll feast on this buffet of new shortcuts to make technology your ally instead of your adversary, so you can spend more time getting things done and less time fiddling with your computer. Youll learn valuable ways to upgrade your life so that you can workand livemore efficiently, such as: empty your e-mail inbox, search the Web in three keystrokes, securely save Web site passwords, automatically back up your files, and many more.
Upgrade Your Life Review
This is a great book. The hacks described in this book can simplify anyone’s work (and personal) life. If you are too hard-pressed to implement even the simple suggestions of the productivity guru David Allen, Gina Trapani makes them even simpler. I randomly implemented some suggestions from the first edition of the book with very satisfying results. I believe that this edition is a major upgrade and I hope to get a lot more out of it. (I haven’t finished reading it yet — but what I have read and implemented so far is impressive enough.)If you are not a full-time geek, it is hard to figure out all the shortcuts to streamline your work and make it as “online” as possible. This book not only describes many hacks but provides step-by-step instructions to implement them. This is one of the best practical books on streamlining your life. I’m glad Gina Trapani wrote it. (I guess that anyone whose last name ends in “rapani” has to have something going for them.)
I’m not the most disorganized person on the planet, but I’m not the most organized either. I found the book to be a good reference and helpful in getting things organized. The chapter on e-mails – first chapter – actually worked. I feel my inbox is managed well. 200 new messages a day (that’s not as much as some folks!) and I’m breezing through them without backlog. On the down side, I found a few tips a little too “organized” for my taste. I’m more about simple effective solutions and this book provides quite a few. It’s well worth the investment.
Excellent book. Upgrade Your Life contains an abundance of sensible tips and tricks for anyone who uses a computer on a regular basis and would like to be more efficient. The information in this book is designed to streamline the way you currently do things and help you develop new, more productive habits. After reading this book I’ve become more aware of ways to improve my work style, not only on my computer, but also in everyday life. I’ve used too many of the tips to list them all here. I like Gina’s writing style which is friendly, but not “cute” (gag). It’s an enjoyable book to read.
I found this book a good primer on workflow and organization. Many of the technological references may be familiar for the tech savvy, but even those are presented with new usage ideas. Well written and entertaining. I specifically enjoyed the references to other works that you can pick up for deeper study in various areas. Would recommend this book to anyone who wants to get things organized and streamlined as a good starting point.
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