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Here is how you can use Twoodo to follow through on all your reading, store articles you don’t have time to read yet, share them, keep a clear list, remember key information points and then finally act on it when the time is right (which is most likely not going to be right now).Organize your readings.Here is how I organize my readings on Twoodo. I collect lots of interesting articles all day long (mostly through Twitter and an app we love called Feedly). Once you have that amazing article link ready but no time to read it and you want to store it, just copy and paste it, then add some hashtags to it! Here’s a step-by-step example:1. Log in2. In the command box:Use + to create a group, project or team (or use an existing group)3. Add a hashtag:This tells you what it is, so that you can easily find it again4. Add as many tags as you likea) to make sure it appears under the right categories, andb) so you can find it in the future5. Once it’s ready, click “send”6. Your post appears:in your feed, andthe feed of the team/group/project that you assigned to it with +7. To add more thoughts, todos, comments, notes associated with that article etc.:Click on the “comments” option in the sub-feed8. You can organize:Organize ideas or notes that you want to remember from the article by using #notes or #ideas (or any word you like). Use @[email protected] to send it via email and use @username to make the message appear in someone else’s feed.9. Take actionCreate actions to take on what you just read.You can assign it so someone else, even if they are not using Twoodo (YET!) via email as so: @[email protected]If you do not assign a particular person, it is automatically assigned to you. You can see the task in your personal task list.If you want an entire group to act upon the task, just use +teamA instead of @username.Once it’s in the task list, it’s just a question of WHEN you’ll get it done. It could be now, could be in a week or more doesn’t matter - but the chances of you acting on it dramatically increase.OutputNever lose an interesting articleFind the articles you need when you need it in just secondsDon’t just read to read, read to act and get things done!Share what you read,

Box. This prevented me from isolating my thought process to one central area. I could find more and more ways to incorporate pieces of techniques into my overall system.I believe that the more people we have providing their “hacks” to productivity, the more we will discover unexpected and exciting recipes. This will motivate people to take control of their system and their lives. It will also have people wanting to reach for better ideas, and promote productive creativity. Paul Arden talks about ideas in It’s Not How Good You Are, It’s How Good You Want To Be: “You just have to put yourself in a frame of mind to pick them up.”Here are some ways that you can pick up ideas:Create a list of problems and ideas, document them in a list. As soon as they come to you, store them in a list-management or collaboration tool like Twoodo and link them to your Evernote so you can expand on them later. (See my article about linking your Twoodo and Evernote Accounts)Keep a journal of methods you try. Be sure to identify both positive and negative aspects. (You may be able to learn something from them later).Use read-later tools like Pocket to store the pages and articles with relevant short phrase tags in order to find advice on needed areas.If you don’t like the eggs, you don’t have to eat them.The best part about this idea is that you do not have to use all of it. You only need to take what is beneficial to you. Create a “recipe book” that has the dishes, their ingredients and steps needed to prepare them. If there is an item that you don’t like, you can leave it out. Just remember like all recipes there are essential and nonessential ingredients. Pancakes without flour are not pancakes.Are you Ready to get started?Scour Reddit’s Productivity Channel and Lifehacker’s “How I Work” series and find the ideas and recipes that are out there. I plan to develop a site that hosts productivity information exclusively and allows for great collaboration and idea collecting. If you are interested in helping me with this idea in any way, including contributing content, please let me know.Additional Photo Credits: Jeffrey W.

Snackable Stats About Company Communication And Collaboration TodayAt Twoodo we’ve read almost every white paper and report on team collaboration and workforce communication. All in all it’s probably taken us a hundred hours to go through all those documents. We wanted to start sharing the most interesting findings in the form of small infographics. Just to make it more digestable. So if you’re hungry for snackable stats about company communication and collaboration, you’ll love these…The first stat that really stood out came out of a Holmes report and stated the enormous amount of loss that miscommunication can create.We also found that the #1 reason why projects fail is due to bad communication.So why is this happening? Well according to reports by softwareadvice.com many companies are using old inefficient ways to communicate.which is scary when you consider how much time workers spend daily on communicating and collaborating.Email takes a lot of heat. But let’s face it, email just wasn’t built for team collaboration and it wastes tons of time.The way we see it, email is great for 1–1 communication but the world is changing. 1-many communication is becoming the norm and email just doesn’t cut it anymore.And in come “social collaboration tools” which are build for teams and 1-many communication.Our research then led us into the realm of the Future of Work. We were surprised to find that one of the biggest factors motivating employees to choose one job over another was “flexible work arrangement”.And this also has benefits for companies as they spend less on office rentals.But things can’t be all bright and beautiful for remote teams right? So what are their main obstacles?The #1 answer was again communication and by digging a bit deeper we found what this communication problem was actually made of.It’s been a few weeks since we’ve created these infographics.. so we thought we’d dive even deeper and bring some amazing new insights into the power of internal communication tools.So can poor internal company communication hurt your business?but wait, there’s more..ouch!