productivity

Why Settling for “Good Enough” Might be Even Better

Perfection is expensive; spend your effort where it matters

Before you worry about making it perfect, ask yourself if that’s the best use of your time. It probably isn’t.

How to Put Today’s Schedule on the Desktop

Bring paper-planner visibility to your Mac

Putting your calendar on the desktop is a useful and unobtrusive way of staying on top of your schedule.

The Ivy Lee Method: Simply Productive

Productivity at its best: Write it, prioritize it, do it

Sometimes the best thing you can do to increase your productivity is also the simplest.

6 Advantages of Watching Where You’re Going

A little foresight turns busy days into focused days

Focus on what you’re doing now, but know what you’re doing next. You’ll be much more productive if you can keep the context of the day in mind.

5 Tips for Staying On Top of Incoming Emails

Don’t let handling email become your full-time job

Email can help you get work done, or it can get in the way. Here are five tips to get through your email quickly and get on with your day.

How Planning Can Help You Handle Interruptions

Is this more important than what you were working on?

A plan will never work out the way it was designed, but you’ll get there. Without a plan, you’re going to be lost at the first interruption.

Focus on What’s Important (and Not Urgent)

Don’t let whatever shouts loudest steal your attention

Everything we do can be put into one of four quadrants on a grid, depending on its importance and urgency. Keeping this model in mind helps keep your attention on the most important things in your life.

Create OmniFocus Project Templates with AppleScript

Improve Your Project Management by Automatically Customizing New Projects

With a little bit of AppleScript, you can create unique repeating tasks in OmniFocus that you can tell apart.

Inertia Can Help You Stay Productive

When the Going Gets Tough, Get Going!

Once you get going, the momentum of getting things done can help you keep going. The hard part is getting started in the first place.