At SUMMARIES1000.COM, I write for a living, so the proper word processor or processors become critical for my productivity. Zoho, Google Docs, OfficeSuite, and Microsoft Word comprise my experience.
I like Google Docs for three reasons. It’s free, well-organized, and I can tab multiple documents on my browser for quick access. I take advantage of Google Docs for short documents such as copyright notices, about the author blurbs, and book descriptions. You can edit docs off-line, but being online generally suffers from a significant disadvantage--it’s slow for larger files, say over fifty pages. Zoho offers the same advantages and disadvantages as Docs but lacks some key features.
OfficeSuite first popped into my arsenal when my laptop died, and I needed to work from tablets while I researched what new laptop I should purchase. When traveling without a laptop, OfficeSuite stepped up to do the job reliably and efficiently. I liked its simplicity so much decided to add the desktop version, which is very inexpensive, even though I already had Word. This article arose from the desktop OfficeSuite, and you may notice its affiliate promotion on some of my published pages. OfficeSuite currently offers a free 30-day trial.
You will be missing out if you do not try it. It costs about $30 per year for one person.
Like Google Docs, I don’t view OfficeSuite as a replacement for Microsoft Word but as a productivity-enhancing complement.
Microsoft Word is the word-processing beast to beat but is so all-encompassing that it becomes too bulky and confusing at times. I find myself searching the web to implement what should be relatively easy tasks, like inserting a table of contents. I see “insert” for tables but don’t see “table of contents,” so I have to plug the term into their search function.
OfficeSuite offers many advantages of Microsoft Word-like speed and the ability to crunch through large documents but in a more streamlined and often better-organized way. It has a few features that Word lacks. For example, OfficeSuite added the ability to crop images within documents.
My strategy is to grab the best from three processors as a yoked team. Short documents live in my Google Docs tabs on Chrome. OfficeSuite serves as my streamlined, fast, easy-to-use workhorse for book-sized documents. Microsoft Word takes over for thorough and final spell-checking, grammar, and publishing since it can incorporate Grammarly as a plug-in. I cranked out over fifty short books in the past two years, from fifty to one-hundred pages each, as summaries, and a half-dozen full-length books.
At $30 per year, or $2.50 per month, OfficeSuite is so inexpensive that it becomes a no-brainer for adding speed and enhancing productivity.
If you are a professional, do not try to replace Word with it. Take advantage of its ease of use compared to Word for most of your processing, and then plug into Word for the final touches.
The following arises from a summary of the introduction and first chapter of James Clear’s best seller, Atomic Habits. Everyone who wants to make any sort of improvement in their life will benefit from Clear’s educational efforts. That means just about everyone on the planet and explains his popularity with over 6 million readers.
His entire book serves as the basis for a Summary1000.com best seller summary in audiobook and ebook forms.
· Mr. Clear tells us to become a reader rather than create a goal to read a book.
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Mr. Clear begins his fine book with a few DEFINITIONS.
ATOMIC
Relating to atoms.
Consisting of uncombined atoms rather than molecules.
Forming a single fundamental unit or component in a more extensive system.
The source of great power or energy.
HABITS
Automatic behavioral patterns in reaction to a situation that become acquired through frequent repetition.
INTRODUCTION: CLEAR'S TOUCHING STORY
James Clear loved baseball and made the varsity team as a sophomore in high school.
His dad played in the minor leagues and they enjoyed a great connection through baseball. Although Clear loved baseball, baseball didn’t always love him back.
On the final day of his sophomore year, James Clear suffered an injury that would change his life forever. At baseball practice, a batter let his bat slip out of his hands, and it flew at high speed to hit Clear right between the eyes, fracturing and flattening his nose and damaging his brain, skull, and memory. The blow hit with such force that his eyeball came out of its socket. A series of predictable seizures would follow. Post-traumatic seizures loomed as a given.
Clear found himself in a helicopter in a rush to the same large hospital where his sister had undergone successful chemo-therapy. They called in a priest. The doctors decided to place Clear in a coma and hooked up a ventilator to begin his treatment. His improvement in breathing patterns the next day permitted release from the coma.
When he began to recover, he experienced double vision. His recovery took quite some time but had a steady pace to it. Re-positioning itself, his eye cooperated to resemble a state of normalcy after about a month. After eight months, Clear managed to drive. Refusing to quit baseball, he found himself cut from the team after a year of absence and medical recovery. He still could not give it up and joined the junior varsity. Baseball played a considerable role in his life, and he wanted to heal up and get back on the field. He dreamed of playing professionally. He rejoined the varsity team as a senior but only racked up eleven innings—enough to make a statement about his perseverance.
Clear began to attend Denison University and joined its baseball team.
HABITS, HABITS, AND MORE HABITS
Clear directed some of his motivation to do well and make-up for his high school tragedy into forming good habits. He turned in early, resisting staying up late each night, like his peers seemed to do, to play video games. Many males, at the college age, live in unkempt, dirty, and chaotic rooms. Clear's room showed organization and cleanliness. A feeling of control over his life rewarded Clear, as did the results of his efforts. As his confidence returned, he polished up his study habits, and he racked up a 4.0-grade point average in his first year, destined to be honored as a scholar in several ways.
Clear informs the reader that a habit is a behavior or routine that displays regular performance and often automatically. Small but consistent habits led to impressive and previously unimaginable results. Clear applied his habits theory to bodybuilding with success. He secured a starting role on the pitching staff, became team captain, made the all-conference team, earned the "top male athlete" title at Denison, and joined the ESPN Academic All-America Team of just 33 players. Denison's top academic honor, the President's Medal, became Clear's.
Clear's baseball injury led to his realization that good habits and small changes can compound into remarkable success. The quality of life, says Clear, becomes dependent upon the quality of our habits. Better habits lead to a better life.
In 2012, Clear began sharing his knowledge of good habits in articles online and built his followers into an audience of some 200,000 email subscribers by 2015. He earned national recognition, some eight million readers, after publishing with Penguin Random House. Coaches jumped on his story and shared it with their teams. Clear launched his Habits Academy in 2017.
Clear offers the reader an incremental and lifetime plan for sculpting improved habits to help the reader achieve what they want in life. Science backs up Clear's method, and he makes it easy to comprehend and apply.
His four-step-plan, which arises from classic operant conditioning, is the backbone of his efforts:
· Cue
· Craving
· Response
· Reward
Integrating behavioral and cognitive science, Clear shows how our feelings, thoughts, and moods shape our fundamental behavior. Clear's principles regarding fundamental behavior can help the reader build a family, build a business, and build anything desired in life.
