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Sharing: Use Google Drawings for brain-friendly visual notetaking {via @jmattmiller}
Use Google Drawings for brain-friendly visual notetaking | Ditch That Textbook A powerful way to take advantage of that is visual notetaking — recording ideas using both images and text. Some call it doodling, and many have gotten “in trouble” for doodling in class even though there were cognitive benefits of it over standard notetaking….
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A comic, the Five Hour rule, and back-to-back meetings don’t work – Top 3 of the Week
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Stopping change by being asleep
You can only live your life asleep or awake. There isn’t any in-between. You are mentally here, or you are mentally elsewhere. This is the reason changes oftentimes doesn’t happen. Source: Going Through Life Asleep – Drew Tolbert I love the thought experiment he proposes.
Speed up Gmail emails and replies with Canned Responses
I try to automate as much as possible, and this last month I looked at speeding up my email use. There is a Gmail lab called Canned Responses that let’s you save several responses and then easily insert them into an email. To turn it on, once you are in Gmail, go to settings. Then click…
