Hi there! So for this review of Smart
Work by a Dermot Crowley, I thought I'd match
the book cover and where are in. Some takeaway messages for me from this
book: 1.) Get everything located in one
electronic spot. I know that we like
to work across multiple documents, and
multiple systems. But if you can get your
tasks your email in your calendar all in
one spot. That is super helpful for
organising your day. I
transitioned from being heavily in the
Google space, in the Outlook space or the
MS space to make this happen. That means
that I can easily turn things like
emails, and other actions into tasks.
That really helped me transition towards
inbox zero by turning emails into tasks.
That was super helpful for me. 2.) The
other thing that I really got from this
book was to share your tasks with both
due dates, and start dates. Start
dates are really important about you
know reminding you, and letting you know
that you need to start this task in
order finish it on time. That's
something that I hadn't done a lot of in
the past. That you know in order to
remember to start something, you had to
remember how in advance in the future it
was rather than electronically set those
start dates, and due dates. 3.) The final
thing that I learned from this book that
I hadn't previously done was to allocate
time to get tasks done rather than just
trying to leave big blocks of the diary
free in order to do work. Whatever that
might be, I know have started to allocate
within my diaries specific time where I
work on a specific task. That could be
writing a blog, could be responding to
emails or it could be very specific in
terms of getting a task done that
someone else has asked me to do on a
project or another piece of work. Or it might even be calling up some
clients, and having a chat to them about
the work that they're doing. Those are
three things that I got from this book
Smart work by Dermot Crawley. As a PhD student
or an early career researcher, I can
highly recommend it to you.
It'll help make you far more
productive if you willing to take on and
and implement this advice. Have a read.
