Tagged with `multitask`

So You Think You Can Multitask? Think Again.

According to Nick Bilton, lead technology reporter of the New York Times, the common held belief that multitasking is impossible is “media hype”, noting that the ability to multitask “depends on what the tasks are”. All experienced drivers are able to drive and talk at the same time. Most mothers are able to talk, cook…

If You Must Multitask, Do It This Way:

We’ve mentioned a few times at Lifehack.org that you can’t really do more than one brain-intensive thing at once, instead only switch between tasks. And I’m not talking about smoking while riding your push-bike. So the underlining productivity tip is not to multitask. Kim Roach wrote it in her article, 50 Ways To Increase Your

Copy Clipboard Contents to Multiple Computers

Copycat is a simple Windows utility that syncs your Clipboard contents to other computers of your choice. A very handy function for anyone working across a few computers. Copycat by R2Studios…

How To MultiTask

It’s almost in our nature, working on computers in a ‘computer age’, to multi-task throughout much of our day. How often do you only have one thing to do? However, a common misconception may be that you, assuming you’re human, do not have the ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously at all. Rather chop and change…

10 tips for time management in a multitasking world

If you have not subscribed our lifehack.org feed and missed a lot of tips and tricks for your life everyday, I suggest you to read this article instead (or an better option, do both). Penelope Trunk, a columnist at the Boston Globe, summarizes some great tips that coming from the blogosphere. She lists ten…