3 Tips for a Great Start to the New Month
Welcome to the first of a new month!
Here are some tasks I do at the beginning of every month to help get it off to a good start. Feel free to adapt these as your own, as well as share your own in the comments.
3 Tips for a Great Start to the New Month
- Change your passwords. Email, social networking sites. Really any site that requires you to log in. Also, don’t use the same password for each website. You can use a Password Manager program or develop your own system (I’ll have to dig around for the link to the guy whose process I use.). Depending on how many accounts you have across multiple platforms, this may be a little time-consuming, so be sure to set aside some time to knock this out.
- Archive and mark read all email prior to the beginning of last month. If you haven’t read it by now, you probably won’t. In GMail you can just archive the messages in case you need to find them later. I’ll keep messages from last month in my Inbox. Here’s how I do it:
- At the GMail search box, type before:yyyy/mm/dd (Substitute the actually Year, Month, and Day accordingly.) For this month it would be 2010/05/01
- Select All
- Mark As Read
- Archive
- Declare RSS bankruptcy. You probably won’t get to all those blog posts, etc., in your RSS reader. I use many for multiple purposes. Google Reader is one of my favorites. To declare RSS bankruptcy in Google Reader so you can start over:
- Click on the All Items link in the left sidebar
- Click the Mark All As Read in the main section.
There you go! Hopefully these tips will help you start your month off great. Please let me know your tips (technical or non-technical) in the comments below.
Make it a great day!
Daniel Johnson, Jr.
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