In today’s issue, tips to create a low-stress workspace. How to declutter and gain control of your home. Easily organize the paper in your life. Time your tasks and run reports with a simple web tool. Read your Google Reader in an email-like app. 9 ways to stay organized with GCal. And 14 productivity apps with push on the iPhone.

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7 Productivity Boosters For The Office Or On The Go

Let’s begin with productivity boosters for your office, then we’ll move on to resources for on the go.

1. 10 Ways to Relaxify Your Workspace

If you want to create a low-stress and relaxing work environment to boost your productivity, here are 10 suggestions for creating a more relaxing workspace:

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2. Declutter & Gain Control Of Your Home

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Personally, my wife & I are happy to be part of her audience and working through her systems to be clutter-free.

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3. Easily Organize Receipts, Biz Cards & Paper Stacks

Do you have piles of receipts, stacks of business cards and reams of paper all over your office?

In my world, I’m trying to get rid of as much paper as possible, and all I want is the info on it.

Enter NeatCo with their NeatReceipts & NeatDesk scanners and software using patented OCR and parsing technology to read and extract key information from your papers, and even PDF docs.

It then organizes, exports and securely stores the data in an easy-to-use database system.

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4. Time Your Work Tasks and Run Reports Easily

As a freelancer or consultant, you may have the need to track your time on client campaigns.

As an entrepreneur focused on productivity, you may want to track how long tasks are taking to
complete.

Or you may request your outsource staff to track their time on your work.

SlimTimer is an easy and no-cost, web-based solution to make easy work of this activity.

You can create named tasks, share them with co-workers and those you report to, or need
reporting from.

Open SlimTimer, click a task to start the clock, and click again to finish. Close the browser when you’re done. And you can run and export reports to CSV, subscribe to its RSS feed, and even email it to a colleague.

Check out this slim but effective timer app:

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5. ReadAir Makes Reading RSS Feeds In Email-Like App

If you’re reading your RSS feeds in Google Reader, this Adobe AIR app – ReadAir – allows you to read your news in an email-like interface.

If you already have a long series of tabs open in your Firefox or Safari browser, and would like your reader open in a separate window, check out ReadAir:

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6. 9 Ways To Stay Organized With Google Calendar

A smart calendar program is essential to improved efficiency, organization and time-savings.

Consistently adding your appointments and events relieves the stress on you to remember everything you need to get done in a day.

Using Google Calendar (GCal) and its many features for reminders, tasks and shareability make it a unique and effective app for business owners.

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7. 14 iPhone Productivity Apps With Push Notification

With PUSH notifications on iPhone apps, you instantly get notified when breaking news happens or your IM app pings you when your VIP peeps are looking for you.

From this list, I have and use Beejive and Toodle-do to connect with my team and clients, along with organizing my business & personal tasks.

Discover these 14 productive PUSH apps now:

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Until the next issue, here’s wishing you much health, happiness, prosperity – and productivity,

Sherman Hu