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Originally Posted On: 7 ways to improve your daily productivity (clariti.app)

If you’re reading this article, chances are you’re the kind of person who puts a lot of thought into excelling at your job. While a lot of job success comes from a combination of skill and practice, there’s also another key ingredient that often gets glossed over—your daily productivity.

A lot of time can be wasted on repetitive tasks such as creating reports or organizing data. While there isn’t a solution to this issue all the time, in many cases, there is software out there that can help automate some of these repetitive tasks. That can leave you a lot more time to spend on doing other, more creative work. Online catalogs like Capterra can be helpful to find such software tools.

This might seem like a no-brainer, but you’d be surprised how many people don’t do this. A to-do list is key to keeping yourself organized, prioritizing your work, and making sure no tasks you intend to do fall through the cracks. Make sure you keep detailed notes in the ToDo so when the time comes to act on it, you don’t waste time trying to recall why you made the ToDo in the first place.

It’s difficult to be fully productive when your emails, messages, and other communication are scattered among many different apps and sometimes even devices. Tools like Clariti can help consolidate all that communication into one place, boosting your productivity by cutting down on the amount of time you spend switching between different pieces of tech.

All too often, people can get caught up in meetings that sap time without adding enough value to justify them. Taking a critical look at your calendar and cutting unnecessary meetings can boost your productivity by leaving you more time to focus on activities that will add more value.

A lot of time can be wasted by poor communication. Miscommunication can lead to misunderstandings, badly targeted work, disagreements and disappointments. Tailoring your communication style to optimize for clarity and ensure nothing gets lost can save a lot of time and frustration for not only you, but for everyone you work with as well.

This might seem like another no-brainer, but it’s often easier said than done. When you have a large task on your plate, it’s often difficult to make yourself take the plunge and actually get it done. However, the longer you wait to start a task, the more crunched your timeline will be when you do actually go to complete it.

It can be tempting to take on any project someone asks you to pick up, in an attempt to be the most useful you can be. However, taking on many projects actually often decreases productivity by causing too much context switching and not allowing enough time for any one project. Be careful with how much you say yes to, so you can make sure you’ll give your all to whatever you do pick up.

Overall, the keys to productivity are communication, organization, and principled commitment. If you can streamline your work life to optimize for those key tools, you’re sure to boost your own effectiveness and usefulness in the office, while making your own life easier as well.

Besides bringing all communications to one place including email, chat, calls, to do, documents and social feeds, Clariti goes a step further and organizes all your work. Clariti introduces TopicFolders on the web that look and feel like Desktop Folders but do so much more. Unlike Desktop Folders that can only store files, TopicFolders hold emails, chats, documents, to-dos, and calls. Continue working with emails, chatting with coworkers, sharing documents and whatever else you do at work. Clariti works behind the scenes to keep all your work organized by topic in a TopicFolder. Automatically. Without the hassle.

By being organized you don’t waste time searching for information and always work knowing the context. This increases your productivity without any additional effort or stress.