Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done Right

Douglas C. Merrill

Getting organized. It’s one of our most common, highly sought goals, yet one of our most persistent sources of frustration. Whether our Achilles' heel is a spotty memory, a compulsion to multitask (which you're not as good at as you probably think), or difficulty managing time, we all face limitations that conspire to keep us disorganized—and feeling stressed.

But as former Google chief information officer Douglas C. Merrill points out, we're not at fault. The root of the problem is our brain; it’s simply not designed to deal with the competing demands on our time and attention in today's fast-paced, information-saturated, hyper-linked world. What’s more, many of the ways in which our society is structured (the 9-to-5, cubicle-bound workday, for example) are outdated, imposing additional pressure and derailing our best efforts to be organized.

On the other hand, we're lucky today to have access to myriad amazing new digital tools and technologies—from fast and powerful search engines to easily managed digital calendars to RSS feeds and videoconferencing—that can help us to become more organized, efficient, and productive than ever. The trick is knowing when and how to use them. And who better to tell us than Merrill, who overcame his struggles with dyslexia to earn a Ph.D. in cognitive science and to eventually help spearhead Google's massive effort to “organize the world's information”? Here he offers a wealth of fresh tips, techniques, and strategies to help us best use the tools at our fingertips to get the job done. Among them, Merrill explains how to:

Use cloud computing, digital devices, and more to keep your tasks, lists, appointments and everything else—in order

An antidote to the staid, outdated, one-size-fits-all approach to organization, Getting Organized in the Google Era will help you marry that three-pound marvel between your ears (also known as your brain) with the miraculous innovations of the information technology revolution so you can get and stay organized in today's world.

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