Alexandra Levits Water Cooler Wisdom How to Automate Your Day (Evening)

Alexandra Levit's Water Cooler Wisdom How to Automate Your Day (Evening) This is the last in a three-part series on how to automate your day so that you have more time for the important things, stay at the top of your game, and remain relevant and marketable in your field. Check out our first post for helpful smartphone and social media hacks to leverage in the morning and our second post for helpful e-mail, research, project management, buying, and delegation hacks to use in the afternoon. Storage Hacks At the end of a busy day at work,you’veprobably accumulated more paperwork than is useful to anyone. How about automating your note-taking and document storage via a tool like Evernote? Evernote not only allows you to save your ideas, things you hear, and things you see throughout the day, but you can also scan the day’s papers directly to an Evernote virtual notebook. Ifyou’veever had the experience of losing out on valuable content because it was taken off a website before you could copy it, Evernote can help with that. Get rid of those Firefox bookmarks and import all of your important web pages into Evernote as clipped notes. Two major advantages of Evernote: it works with every kind of mobile device and computer, and it allows you to encrypt confidential data. As for all of those business cardsyou’vecollected, consider downloading an app like ScanBizCards that allows you to automatically input card data right into your online contact database so youdon’thave to worry about losing or storing the physical cards. For more evening automation hacks, head over to the full post at Intuits Fast Track blog.