Post your favorite little tips/timesavers here.

[Deborah M.]

I thought we could all post our favorite little things that make our job easier.  I love finding out about new stuff -- like the Brother printer for the exhibit stickers.  That one has really made my life easier.

I got a little thing that seems so simple but I love it.  I got this glue tape roller, like for scrapbooking, and I use it to glue the business cards onto my worksheet at the job so I don't lose them.  Quick and easy.  Here's a link:

http://www.staples.com/Staples-Roll-On-Permanent-Glue-Tape/product_...

What's your tip?

[Janet]

 

That's a cute little thing.  I hate to tell you how long it takes me sometimes to find a business card in the stack I keep putting in my case.

[Alice Clark]

I like that glue tape!  One thing I got this year (which I wrote about in another thread) is a Logitech laptop speaker Z205 which allows me to hear my audio without headphones.  My USB mic and my internal mic are too quiet to hear without headphones.  My internal mic used to play really loud but somehow it lost whatever that setting was at some point.  Anyway, now I can hear them both. 

http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Z205-Portable-Computer-Speaker/dp/B0...

[Keith Rowan II]

Very nice, Debra.  And what printer do you speak of?

[Deborah M.]

It's a Brother QL-570 label printer.  Someone posted about it on the other site and a lot of us bought them.  I made an exhibit template and I just go in and put the current date, wit name, and starting exhibit number.  Then I tell it how many to print.  It will number sequentially, so I can get Exhibits 4-23 or whatever.  Will work with letters too.  Or if you have A3-A12, it will spit them all out.  I also use it for address labels.  Very simple.  I get the refill tapes from doberman.com for half the price of Staples.

[Keith Rowan II]

Hmm.  Very intriguing.  So are you taking it to the job or doing it at home?  Are you doing it afterwards or marking a bunch before and then you don't end up using half of them?

[Deborah M.]

No, on the job I either put a Post-it or write a tiny number in the left margin where it will be covered with the binding.  I do the stickers at home.  I'm not lugging another thing on my jobs!

[Martha R]

In the past I have wasted so much time looking for exhibits, business cards, notes I've jotted down.   Now I keep everything relating to a job in a large plastic envelope so I can find it all in one place.  It has made my life easier.

[Dean Morris]

Piggybacking off Deborah's suggestion, I attach the business card with a stapler.  Many deposition suites have a stapler, or I also have an itty-bitty stapler for use on the go.

[Deborah M.]

I was using a stapler but didn't want to bring a big one and my tiny one kept breaking.  So I found the tape runner.

[Alice Clark]

I notice that Costco has a glue tape product even cheaper in their office supplies section ~ Dispenser $3.79 and refills $2.20.  That includes the cost of shipping.

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11529399&searc...|1892&Ntt=glue+tape&No=2&Ntx=mode+matchallpartial&Nty=1&topnav=&s=1

[Deborah M.]

I use folders for the same idea, like the old Pee Chee folders, only I get pretty ones.  The exhibits and anything extra goes inside, and the worksheet with job info I wrote down goes on the outside with a paperclip.  Then they all go in a basket in order so I know which job to work on next.

[Keith Rowan II]

That's a good idea, Deborah, about writing the number in the corner or on a Post-It then printing them later.   I'll have to think about that.