Time Savers

Park It Here

BestParking:
Available in 105 cities and 115 airports throughout North America, it will find you the best spot, no matter where you are. It even sorts spots by price, so you can instantly visualize where the most affordable (and most expensive) spots are.

ParkMe:
This app offers the largest and most accurate parking database in the world. With over 84,000 locations in over 64 countries, it can compare the most available spots and save every time you park. The app can even tell you where to find parking up to two weeks into the future.

Parker:
This app can help you find available parking spots, prices, and hours for 24,000 garages and lots. You can also filter parking spots by space, payment type, and more. Built-in GPS navigation can even guide you to the nearest open spot, so you will never have to drive around confused in a new city again.

SpotHero :
The app has its own dedicated unsold spots from parking facilities in the area. You can quickly reserve one of those spots from your phone and enjoy a discounted rate in the process. It is available in most large cities and is introducing new locations everyday.

Save Time By Creating Activity Sets

We’ll use the process of hiring a new staff member to illustrate how to set up and use an activity set:

1 – Task: Review resumes (due after 2 days)
2 – Task: Create short list of favored applicants (due after 3 days)
3 – Event: Phone interviews of short list (due after 4 days)
4 – Event: In-person interviews with potentials (due after 6 days)
5 – Task: Send out offer letter to successful applicant (due after 7 days)
6 – Task: Confirm acceptance and schedule orientation (due after 14 days)

You must be an Insightly administrator to access the system settings. Click Profile icon > System Settings > Activity Sets.

Type a name for the set in the Activity Set Name field and click the box or boxes for leads, contacts, organizations, opportunities, or projects. For our example, we’ve entered Staff hire, and ticked the For Projects box, since we use projects to manage staff member recruitment.

To begin adding activities to the set, click the Edit Activities link. Click the Choose Activity Type list and select Task or Event. Complete the form for the new activity. Insightly allows you to specify a relative due date by entering the number of days after the activity set start date or the number of days before an activity set end date for each task to fall due. (The start and end dates are selected by the user when the activity set is applied.) Insightly also allows you to skip days like Saturday or Sunday so activities don’t fall on weekends.

Bittersweet Goodness

If consuming chocolate is a regular part of your lifestyle routine, there’s good news on the horizon… if you’re willing to make some adjustments and switch to dark chocolate. Research findings show that chocolate in its most pure form can help mitigate the effects of ailments such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and certain cognitive functions.

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About the author: Marta Bright is Insightly’s Content Manager. She’s been writing about the “business of technology” in the Silicon Valley for more than a decade.