Do you recycle information?

The great thing about computers is that you can write one document and then turn it into other documents by simply reformatting or rearranging the contents. A list of one-sentence tips can become a series of articles about each tip, for example. Or a one-page collection of commonly-asked questions can become an FAQ document. If you send lots of e-mail, you're writing messages every day that have the potential to be recycled into longer, stand-alone documents. A particularly good response to a customer query might be the beginning of an electronic brochure, for example. Set your e-mail program to save outgoing messages, and go through the out box periodically to look through messages that can be turned into other types of documents.