Steveer Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

When Melvin is trying to calm down his fiancée Bernice after saying the wrong thing,

he has to keep track of many details.

Did he or did he not invoke the goddess?

Did he compliment her latest outfit before or after admitting

that it was all his fault? In the thrill of the moment-to-moment living, we have to track many

details in any given situation. But six weeks from now, Melvin only needs to remember the essentials,

one, that he was wrong, and two, that despite his personal taste, gluing rhinestones to his t-shirt

does not make it acceptable attire for a formal event.

Short-term memory is where we keep track of the tiny details we need to finish the task at hand.

Modern tasks often involve files on a computer, and if you're like me, you use your desktop

for that. You need to download a research report on the market demand for naked mole rats in cosmetic testing labs.

Add that PDF file to my desktop.

Editing a photo album for the office party?

My desktop gets covered with pictures galore.

And when I need something, it's...

It's... it's... somewhere.

I was working on it just five minutes ago, and it was called

0345.p.df? I have no idea what it was called. So how do we keep track of all those little

details when doing a short-term project or sections of a project? Here are five easy tips.

Tip number one, use recent documents.

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