Heart-y Efficiency

I couldn’t pass up a play on words for one of my favorite holidays!

Surely it doesn’t matter if you are a business coach or a virtual assistant for business coaches anything that makes you more efficent is a no brainer!  To me that means I try to move my hand off my keyboard to use my mouse as little as possible - especially if I’m working quickly.  It also means I like to be able to access a bunch of my stuff in one place and for it to be simple to use.

When I came across this little list the other day I couldn’t help but jump up and down!  If you use Google Reader to follow a bunch of blogs then you’ll like this list of keyboard shortcuts too!  Keyboard shortcuts always take me a while to remember.  To make it easier I print them off and keep a copy by my keyboard for a couple of weeks.  (By the way, is Nibbles on your list!  If not, use the next tip to quickly subscribe to the RSS feed.)

I switched readers recently because for some reason my tool of choice was dislaying some of the blogs without text wrap so I was moving the scroll bar left to right – a lot.  When I switched to Google Reader it took me a while to get used to it and find all the bells and whistles I was used to having.  I’m still getting adjusted but was most happy to find the bell I missed the most…the subscribe function for my bookmarks.  If you don’t have it for Google Reader here is how to find it.

On the bottom of the left side column in Google Reader you’ll see a link that says Manage Subscription.  After clicking there you’ll be taken to a page to do just that but it also has tabs across the top for other things.  Click on the Goodies tab and scroll down to the Subscribe as you surf header.  When you follow those instructions you’ll end up with a bookmark that allows you subscribe to blogs on the fly.  Slick, huh?

I hope you have a wonderful Valentine’s Day and give somebody a kiss would ya…just to celebrate I mean!

Nibbling away -

Sundi