Stevea Robbins here.

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

They say you can't take it with you.

And they're wrong. You can take it with you. It's the future.

We take our work with us on our laptops and we work from anywhere, even the park,

surrounded by cute woodland

creatures who frolic in the grass as we luxuriate in the freedom and the productivity

of our futuristic lifestyle. We can't use portable electronic devices for truly revolutionary

tasks. They can transmit documents, send text messages, snap pictures of important news stories,

and create a web of knowledge that puts the Library of Alexandria to shame.

We should be walking around more productive than ever, getting stuff done at an unprecedented

rate. But we're not. Instead, we're sending cat pictures. We're reading rumors about Justin Bieber's impending emotional implosion

and writing status updates about our digestive system's reaction to the sloppy Joe we just ate for lunch.

Our productivity software is helpfully full of ads.

And even the most serious documents are hyperlinked to blog posts promising to reveal

eight reasons that Kim Kardashian should wax her nose hairs.

Technology has made us reactive, scattered, and distracted. And we are. The most common thing

people tell me is that they're distracted, overwhelmed, and can't find the time or space to focus.

Yay, technology. We need to turn our technology back into a productivity tool.

But how?

Dropbox saves the day.

A few months ago, I was raving to a friend about Dropbox.

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