How to Be More Organized at Work: The Power of Automation

It’s why we’ve seen such transformations as mechanized farming, manufacturing, travel, retail, and advances in countless other sectors over the past century or two. And while AI researchers and advocates foresee much bigger things coming, the more immediate benefits most of us have access to today can help us be more organized at work by handling the tedious tasks that gobble up so much of our time and mental energy. According to research by social psychologist Roy Baumeister, it’s those kinds of tasks in particular that are most likely to leave us mentally depleted. It’s an integration tool that easily connects the other web apps you use in order to automate certain tasks. IfThisThenThat: This is a web service that allows you to plug information in from one app to another, even allowing you to create custom tasks to mirror a specific workflow: “If, then,” so for instance, “If I post a new photo to Instagram, then download it to Dropbox.” You can also use “recipes,” which are simply prebuilt tasks made by other users that you can add to your own IFTTT account.