#55: 5 Powerful WhatsApp Hacks To 10X Your Productivity!

<p>Episode Notes:</p><ol><li>Touch it once - only when you are ready to deal with it.<ul><li>if needed tilt the phone and read further to decide but touch only when ready to act upon it.</li></ul></li><li>Schedule WhatsApp time in your daily planner/agenda and use it ONLY then.<ul><li>Allow your messages to stack! </li><li>Silent all notifications, sounds except for WhatsApp calls.</li><li>No to WhatsApp first thing in the morning, the last thing in the night, seeing stories during lunch and check in every 3rd minute.</li></ul></li><li>Organize to make Whatapp work for you.<ul><li>Name saving tip - Add things you can recall. Like:<ol><li>W1- Shree Balaji - Xprof Pes, Made Cement clock, Met at Sheraton night market.</li><li>W2- Priyanka Ref: Ankit's Aunt that makes yum chocolate stuff</li><li>W3 - Curious cat Rishabh - Mandya Sangh</li><li>Broadcast list Prefix - W1, W2, W3</li></ol></li><li>Use label feature - A, B, C, D, Followup. - Create more and experiment based on your business.<ol><li>Go to the most important labels FIRST during the scheduled time. NOT the recent messages stacked on top.</li></ol></li><li>Exit toxic, distracting, directionless groups - will it hurt to exit this group? almost always the answer is NO. so, let go and exit.</li><li>Archive random forwards, unimportant messages or anything that isn’t relevant <i>to you.</i></li><li>block persistent broadcasters.</li></ul></li><li>Communication chain for productivity - Text > audio note > Call > Physical meet<ul><li>For smarter texting: Anticipate a person's questions/ concerns/ objections and address them in a single message.</li><li>Reinforce your systems using forward slash shortcuts. Here's a sample to ensure every call I get has a clear agenda:<ol><li>/agenda1 That sounds doable. So I can best prepare for our interaction, can you send me a note with an agenda? That is, the topics and questions we’ll need to address? That would be great. Thanks in advance.</li><li>/agenda2 To make the best use of everyone’s time I like to have a well-defined