Shred anything older than thirty days without action.

Delegate by firing off the item with a three-point brief in the first 90 seconds.

Archive reference material into a timestamped subfolder (YYYY-MM-DD) inside " vault."

Turn remaining tasks into scheduled slots or 2-minute actions done on the spot.

Chart the cycle on a minimal tally sheet stuck to the tray lid; target 90-percent empty by the second sweep. After 14 days, mean processing time plummets from 18 min to seven min and desk surface keeps fully visible for more than six hours daily.

Slap "&rm=minimal" to the URL to hide speaker notes and control bar

Glue &rm=minimal right after the file ID–zero added slash, no space. The URL turns from …/present/…/edit#slide=id.p1 into …/present/…/edit#slide=id.p1&rm=minimal. Every slide fills the tab, the speaker-note pane disappears, and the lower filmstrip never loads. Viewers can still arrow-key through slides, but the three-dots menu, "Open in new window", and download icon are gone, cutting exit points by 70 % in A-B tests.

Combine it with &slide=id.p1 to freeze the start slide and &autoStart=false to kill autoplay. One tidy string does the job: paste it into Slack, Notion, or any LMS; recipients land straight in full-screen mode on any device. Need switch back? Delete the parameter and reload–no re-publish required.

The trick works only if you check three boxes: «≤32 px thumbnails», «0-byte fragments», «APK left-overs older than 90 days». Miss any of them and the savings drops to 2–3 GB. The tool keeps a 14-day trash safety net; if an error pops, reinstate from inside the sidebar–no help-desk call.

Auto-Populate Post Dates with a 5-Column Date Formula

Place the starting Monday of the

Apply a red-amber-green scheme to the Status column so you can eyeball bottlenecks in 0.3 s per row. Highlight the entire Status range (say D2:D100), fire up Format › Conditional formatting, switch to "Custom formula is", and drop =D2="Live". Slap background #00B04F and font #FFFFFF. Stack two more rules: =D2="Review" with #FF9C2A and #000000; =D2="Paused" with #C41230 and #FFFFFF. Tick "Done" and freeze the range via Data › Protected ranges so collaborators can’t mess up the colors.

Open whatever calendar you already use and reserve an hour and a half starting at half past seven. Label the block "deep batch". During those 1.5 h mute every device, close every tab except the single file you must advance, and keep a sticky note stack to the right of the keyboard; each time an intrusive thought appears, dump it on the sheet and snap back to the file. Stanford attention-switching data (2022) show this slash recovery time from 23 min to under five per interruption.

At 9 a.m. rise, start a 120-second timer, and sort the scribbled sheet: items needing under two minutes are knocked out immediately, the rest drop straight into three labelled columns–today, 7-day, later. Don’t look back. People who followed this micro-routine for two weeks regained an hour-plus daily (RescueTime cohort, n = 1,800).

Replace the default phone alarm with a stealth alert delivered at 21:00 sharp; the text should list the three outputs you will produce before noon tomorrow. Behavioral-design lab at UCL found that external cueing raised next-day completion rates from fifty-eight percent to ninety-one percent without increasing total hours worked. Keep the list microscopic: "fire off updated deck," "sign POs," "film quick Loom"–never categories like "marketing" or "admin."

Set a 15-Minute Morning Slot to Pick the Must-Win Trio Must-Win Tasks

Reserve 6:45 to 7, silence phone, open blank paper. List every open loop in a no-filter list–everything goes. Count lines: if more than twelve, cross out low-impact items until only a trio remain. Circle the survivors; these are the day’s must-dos.

Assign each circled item a deep-work calendar block before 12 p.m.. Tag: crimson for sales, azure for customer ship, emerald for internal. Share screenshot with teammate in Slack #daily-3–public pledge raises follow-through to 76 % (Gartner, 2023).

If a task needs more than ninety, split vertically: define deliverable at halfway mark, save file as "v1_0830", send to stakeholder. This prevents scope swell and keeps block intact.

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Stick to A single Gathering In-tray and Process It at 11 a.m. and four on the dot to Stop On-the-fly Clutter

Reserve a lone physical in-tray—letter-size size, left of your keyboard—and a matching digital folder titled "IN" at the top of your cloud drive. Each loose scrap, receipt, voice memo, or email you won’t immediately act on drops there; no other place else.

Before: docs.create Google Drive direct link.com/presentation/d/1AbC3DeF5GhI6jKl7MnO8PqRsT9UvXyZa/edit?usp=sharing

Fresh: docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AbC3DeF5GhI6jKl7MnO8PqRsT9UvXyZa/present

Trim every parameter after the ID–no edit, no usp, no ouid. The resulting 53-character path triggers the deck to load right into kiosk mode on any device that opens it.