Productivity

The Keys to Making Your Digital Planner More Functional

Everything you need frequently can be just a keystroke away

The apps you use for tasks, schedule, and notes should be just a keystroke away. Your digital planner should be as simple to use as possible.

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How to Clear Your Desk and Your Mind with 43 Folders

You can easily add a time machine to your personal productivity system

Give your productivity system a time machine. Reduce clutter, stop losing things, and increase your productivity with just 43 folders.

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Tell Your Calendar Where You Need to Be

6 Ways your Calendar can Help you Chart your Course through Time and Space

Use your calendar to track where you need to be, not just when you need to be there. A few seconds up front will save you time and frustration down the road.

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How to Save Photos, Video, and Audio from Messages

Send Your Precious Moments Somewhere They’ll Last Forever

What do you do with the photos, videos, and audio you’ve received in Messages? With just a few taps, you can send those precious moments someplace they’ll last forever.

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How to Boost Your Productivity with Just One Touch

Once you pick it up, don’t put it down until you’re done

If you keep picking up the same input over and over again only to consider it, then put it back to deal with later, consider invoking the touch-move rule.

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How to Process PDFs Faster with Custom Services

How to send PDFs anywhere as soon as they’re created

A large part of going paperless means replacing tree-based paper with digital paper—PDFs. One trick that will really streamline your digital paper workflow is to take a PDF from one application and immediately open it in another app. Here’s how.

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What Does Your Week Look Like?

One small change can make your calendar much more helpful

Your calendar is one of the most important productivity tools that you have, showing you a map of your productivity landscape. Are you using a folding map or a GPS to find you way?

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Do You Trust Your System to Handle Your Life?

Your brain doesn’t have to keep every thought in RAM

You have a system in place for handling the information in your life. Do you trust it? Or do you keep thinking thoughts so you don’t lose them?

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3 Ways to Repeat a Task in OmniFocus

Understand Repeat Every, Defer Another, and Due Again in 5 minutes or less

OmniFocus can repeat tasks three different ways: Repeat Every, Defer Another, and Due Again. Here’s how each one works.

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