Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Stay Efficient, Productive

US: Crown Business, 2011. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Whether it's a faulty memory, a tendency to multitask, or difficulty managi ng our time, every one of us has limitations conspiring to keep us from bei ng organized. But, as organizational guru and former Google CIO Douglas C. Merrill points out, it isn't our fault. Our brains simply aren't designed t o deal with the pressures and competing demands on our attention in today's fast-paced, information-saturated, digital world. What's more, he says, ma ny of the ways in which our society is structured are outdated, imposing ad ditional chaos that makes us feel stressed, scattered, and disorganized. But it doesn't have to be this way. Luckily, we have a myriad of amazing ne w digital tools and technologies at our fingertips to help us manage the st rains on our brains and on our lives; the trick is knowing when and how to use them. This is why Merrill, who helped spearhead Google's effort to "org anize the world's information," offers a wealth of tips and strategies for how to use these new tools to become more organized, efficient, and success ful than ever. But if you're looking for traditional, rigid, one-size-fits-all strategies for organization, this isn't the book for you. Instead, Merrill draws on hi s intimate knowledge of how the brain works to help us develop fresh, innov ative, and flexible systems of organization tailored to our individual goal s, constraints, and lifestyles. From how to harness the amazing power of search, to how to get the most out of cloud computing, to techni.