Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is for how to remember anything that involves
Speaker 1: your phone, take a screenshot. Then you can use this
Speaker 1: information whenever you need it. I was reminded of this
Speaker 1: tip when Sarah hart unger my co host on the
Speaker 1: Best of Both Worlds podcast, mentioned that she would hear
Speaker 1: something interesting in another podcast while walking or running and
Speaker 1: then wonder how she could capture it. Then she realized
Speaker 1: that she could take a screenshot. The screenshot would record
Speaker 1: where she was in the podcast. Then later, when she
Speaker 1: was at her desk, she could go to that part
Speaker 1: of the podcast and write down whatever it was she
Speaker 1: wanted to hear again. I hadn't thought of this idea
Speaker 1: for podcasts, but I realized I was using the screenshot
Speaker 1: function on my phone for other things. For instance, I
Speaker 1: review a reasonable number of books. In the past, i'd
Speaker 1: get paper galleys and i'd mark them up when I
Speaker 1: found a quote that I thought I might possibly use.
Speaker 1: These days, a number of authors and publishers want to
Speaker 1: send out galleys electronically, and I get it. No paper,
Speaker 1: no shipping, quicker and better for the earth. But I
Speaker 1: really struggle to take notes on anything electronic. I'd be
Speaker 1: reading on my phone, but then have to find paper
Speaker 1: to write something down, which seems like a high bar
Speaker 1: for a long quote I wasn't sure I was going
Speaker 1: to use anyway. Then I realized I could take a
Speaker 1: screenshot of whatever page I found the cool quote on.
Speaker 1: I would save the screenshot to my photos, and then
Speaker 1: later look back through them and pull out the information
Speaker 1: I intended to use. This is now how I handle
Speaker 1: reviews of just about anything I read electronically. I also
Speaker 1: screenshots pretty liberally for design ideas. I'm working with a
Speaker 1: designer to renovate the new to us but very old
Speaker 1: house that my husband and I just bought. I know
Speaker 1: people create Pinterest boards or house pages, but I was
Speaker 1: finding a lot of stuff on Instagram and just struggling
Speaker 1: with transferring it all over. So I realized I could
Speaker 1: take screenshots and email them to the designer. Problem solved.
Speaker 1: Taking a screenshot works for anything you want to remember
Speaker 1: but can't fully process. Now, if I am doing research
Speaker 1: on my phone for an article and come across the study,
Speaker 1: I'll take a screenshot of the title, author and journal
Speaker 1: with that information, I know I'll be able to google
Speaker 1: it successfully later. Now. Of course, I can obviously email
Speaker 1: a link to myself too, and we've certainly talked about
Speaker 1: that on this program. But I found that the screenshot
Speaker 1: is good for stuff that I'm not add percent sure
Speaker 1: I'm going to use, or when I'm capturing a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff, because when I process my email, I'm doing
Speaker 1: everything as I go through my inbox, and it's going
Speaker 1: to annoy me to have links to different articles in
Speaker 1: very different spots on my inbox. A safe set of screenshots,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, can sit there until I plan
Speaker 1: to work on that particular project. Plus is Sarah on
Speaker 1: my podcast co host noticed the screenshot function is great
Speaker 1: for things that are fleeting or that happened while you're
Speaker 1: out on the go. You may think you're going to
Speaker 1: remember something really cool that happened two minutes and forty
Speaker 1: seven seconds into a podcast, but you know what, you
Speaker 1: are never going to remember that. So today, if there's
Speaker 1: something that you do want to remember later, take a screenshot.
Speaker 1: That way, you don't have to rely on your brain,
Speaker 1: which is good because your brain is probably too busy
Speaker 1: for stuff like that. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of
Speaker 1: our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.
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