Free Tech Tools That Increase Productivity

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1 Free Tech Tools That Increase Productivity Frank Buck Consulting, Inc. FrankBuck.org 1

2 What You Will Learn in this Workshop Thank for your interest in this workshop and for taking the time to download this handout. This document will serve as an outline and provide clues to the important concepts. Technology can, and should, make our lives easier. This workshop shows you how. Learn how you can organize all of your Internet resources in one place with a personalized homepage. Learn how to access your information from anywhere with Dropbox. Store reference information in the cloud with Evernote. Change forever the way you think about paper forms with Google forms. Put an end to forgetting. Trap voice notes on the fly with your mobile phone. Have them show up as text in your or to-do list. Print this handout and bring it with you to the workshop. You can take notes, jot questions for follow-up, and start writing down your ideas for how you can implement what you learn. Frank Buck Consulting, Inc. FrankBuck.org 2

3 ighome I can change the links on the black bar and change which search engine is being used by going to P. Here are some gadgets I might want on my page: To create an account, I go to: To make ighome, my homepage, I will I can get to my ighome from someone else s computer. TRUE FALSE Ideas I have about using ighome: Frank Buck Consulting, Inc. FrankBuck.org 3

4 Dropbox To create an account, go to: While there, I will be sure to download I get GB of storage free. To get extra storage for free,. Each person gets me MB extra storage up to GB. Here is someone s link which will get me the extra storage when I create my account: Here is my link. When people create their account with it, I get more storage: When I have Dropbox downloaded to one computer, here are the other computers on which I will log into my account and download Dropbox:,,, To get Dropbox on my tablet or Smartphone, If I want something to be available from anywhere, all I have to do is it in the My folder. I can get to my Dropbox from someone else s computer. TRUE FALSE Three essential folders: Document (or My Documents ) My Dropbox Fingertip Ideas I have about using Dropbox: Frank Buck Consulting, Inc. FrankBuck.org 4

5 Evernote To create an account, go to: Download the and on each of your computers. Download the Evernote app to your mobile devices. Each month, I can upload MB of data to Evernote. I can get to your Evernote from someone else s computer. TRUE FALSE Notebooks I will create: 1..Inbox 2. Miscellaneous 3. Personal Information Tags I will create: Frank Buck Consulting, Inc. FrankBuck.org 5

6 Which of the following is true: 1. I can into Evernote. 2. I can from Evernote. 3. Both are true. I could use Evernote to keep these things: Google Forms These are forms I am having other people complete: Frank Buck Consulting, Inc. FrankBuck.org 6

7 I could use Google Forms to replace these forms: Voice Input Here is how I can get my to-dos on my to-do list through voice input: Here are some other tasks I could be performing with voice input: Frank Buck Consulting, Inc. FrankBuck.org 7

8 I can get the ebook reviewing everything from the workshop here: (case sensitive) Next Steps When the workshop is over, life happens. Now is the time to plan what you will do when you return home to implement what you have learned. While it s on your mind, plan your next steps: 1. Download the ebook and schedule a block of time to work through it while at your computer Share your success stories. me at Frank@FrankBuck.org to let me know what s working. Think about who else you will involve, what tools you want to use, when you want to launch each one, and why each tool will engage your stakeholders. Frank Buck Consulting, Inc Eagle Pointe Lane Pell City, AL (205) Twitter.com/DrFrankBuck Facebook.com/DrFrankbuck Organization Made Easy Frank Buck Consulting, Inc. FrankBuck.org 8