Take a screen shot

How to remember things on the fly

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is for how to remember anything that involves
your phone, take a screenshot. Then you can use this

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information whenever you need it. I was reminded of this
tip when Sarah hart unger my co host on the
Best of Both Worlds podcast, mentioned that she would hear
something interesting in another podcast while walking or running and
then wonder how she could capture it. Then she realized
that she could take a screenshot. The screenshot would record

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where she was in the podcast. Then later, when she
was at her desk, she could go to that part
of the podcast and write down whatever it was she
wanted to hear again. I hadn't thought of this idea
for podcasts, but I realized I was using the screenshot
function on my phone for other things. For instance, I

(01:07):
review a reasonable number of books. In the past, i'd
get paper galleys and i'd mark them up when I
found a quote that I thought I might possibly use.
These days, a number of authors and publishers want to
send out galleys electronically, and I get it. No paper,
no shipping, quicker and better for the earth. But I

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really struggle to take notes on anything electronic. I'd be
reading on my phone, but then have to find paper
to write something down, which seems like a high bar
for a long quote I wasn't sure I was going
to use anyway. Then I realized I could take a
screenshot of whatever page I found the cool quote on.
I would save the screenshot to my photos, and then

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later look back through them and pull out the information
I intended to use. This is now how I handle
reviews of just about anything I read electronically. I also
screenshots pretty liberally for design ideas. I'm working with a
designer to renovate the new to us but very old
house that my husband and I just bought. I know

(02:09):
people create Pinterest boards or house pages, but I was
finding a lot of stuff on Instagram and just struggling
with transferring it all over. So I realized I could
take screenshots and email them to the designer. Problem solved.
Taking a screenshot works for anything you want to remember
but can't fully process. Now, if I am doing research
on my phone for an article and come across the study,

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I'll take a screenshot of the title, author and journal
with that information, I know I'll be able to google
it successfully later. Now. Of course, I can obviously email
a link to myself too, and we've certainly talked about
that on this program. But I found that the screenshot
is good for stuff that I'm not add percent sure
I'm going to use, or when I'm capturing a lot
of stuff, because when I process my email, I'm doing

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everything as I go through my inbox, and it's going
to annoy me to have links to different articles in
very different spots on my inbox. A safe set of screenshots,
on the other hand, can sit there until I plan
to work on that particular project. Plus is Sarah on
my podcast co host noticed the screenshot function is great
for things that are fleeting or that happened while you're

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out on the go. You may think you're going to
remember something really cool that happened two minutes and forty
seven seconds into a podcast, but you know what, you
are never going to remember that. So today, if there's
something that you do want to remember later, take a screenshot.
That way, you don't have to rely on your brain,
which is good because your brain is probably too busy

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for stuff like that. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of
our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear from you.
You can send me your tips, your questions, or anything else.

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Thanks so much, I look forward to staying in touch.

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