Comments on: Making the Most of “Short-Burst” Downtime http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/ Entrepreneur. Adventurist. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:45:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tracy http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-8298 Tracy Tue, 12 May 2009 06:24:57 +0000 http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/#comment-8298 Once every several months, I sync up my contacts list. I delete people I do not need in my phone anymore, delete old pics, etc. To answer previous poster's question, I write people by when or where I met them; i.e. Jim.PapaJohns.Pizza.Chlt... This tells me Jim is the delivery guy from Papa John's in Charlotte when I want pizza. When I am in another city, I just type Pizza and have a place saved same way, or Chlt and lots of options come up. I dare say that is my favorite feature of Berry contacts. Same goes with children's friends (Mary.Jamie) then I know without a doubt who is calling. Lastly, I enter also the name of the contact that introduced us. (Jim Smith.Painter.MaryMartin). It really helps organize! Once every several months, I sync up my contacts list. I delete people I do not need in my phone anymore, delete old pics, etc. To answer previous poster’s question, I write people by when or where I met them; i.e. Jim.PapaJohns.Pizza.Chlt… This tells me Jim is the delivery guy from Papa John’s in Charlotte when I want pizza. When I am in another city, I just type Pizza and have a place saved same way, or Chlt and lots of options come up. I dare say that is my favorite feature of Berry contacts.

Same goes with children’s friends (Mary.Jamie) then I know without a doubt who is calling. Lastly, I enter also the name of the contact that introduced us. (Jim Smith.Painter.MaryMartin). It really helps organize!

]]> By: The Tools of My Travel Trade | The Home of Peter Shankman - Shankman.com http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-8176 The Tools of My Travel Trade | The Home of Peter Shankman - Shankman.com Sun, 10 May 2009 22:01:47 +0000 http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/#comment-8176 [...] not enough time to take out your laptop, but still wanna get some work done? Read my post on “Short-burst downtime.” Perhaps there’s one or two useful solutions in [...] [...] not enough time to take out your laptop, but still wanna get some work done? Read my post on “Short-burst downtime.” Perhaps there’s one or two useful solutions in [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-1676 Andrew Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:47:33 +0000 http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/#comment-1676 I'm finding Twitter and Facebook too time-consuming and not user friendly enough to completely update on my mobile device (a Treo; that's probably the problem). So those are laptop things, not subway things. My subway time is for novel reading. I'm convinced James Joyce had the 6 Train in mind when he wrote <i>Finnegans Wake</i>. I’m finding Twitter and Facebook too time-consuming and not user friendly enough to completely update on my mobile device (a Treo; that’s probably the problem).

So those are laptop things, not subway things.

My subway time is for novel reading. I’m convinced James Joyce had the 6 Train in mind when he wrote Finnegans Wake.

]]> By: Jonathan Yarmis http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-1675 Jonathan Yarmis Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:28:52 +0000 http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/#comment-1675 Short-term: Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. At 140 characters, you can't do long-term. But you sure can forge lots of connections in a very short period of time. You said "you're all on Twitter, right?" I'm betting most *aren't.* Get on Twitter. Today. Short-term: Twitter, Twitter, Twitter. At 140 characters, you can’t do long-term. But you sure can forge lots of connections in a very short period of time. You said “you’re all on Twitter, right?” I’m betting most *aren’t.* Get on Twitter. Today.

]]> By: Lindsay Lebresco (Graco) http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/comment-page-1/#comment-1674 Lindsay Lebresco (Graco) Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:29:26 +0000 http://shankman.com/making-the-most-of-short-burst-downtime/#comment-1674 You've got them! Short term- DELETE old BB e-mails. What a feeling of accomplishment... Long term- Writing e-mails on the plane while no new ones are coming in and the glorious feeling of syncing up and watching 45 new e-mails barrage unexpecting recipients! Question- how do you organize your contacts? Like food or services? I add them all the time in contacts and can't remember how I filed them... Then I find out I put the pizza shop under Jim and he doesn't even work them anymore... You’ve got them!
Short term- DELETE old BB e-mails. What a feeling of accomplishment…
Long term- Writing e-mails on the plane while no new ones are coming in and the glorious feeling of syncing up and watching 45 new e-mails barrage unexpecting recipients!

Question- how do you organize your contacts? Like food or services? I add them all the time in contacts and can’t remember how I filed them… Then I find out I put the pizza shop under Jim and he doesn’t even work them anymore…

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