The key to productivity is to have a plan. Whatever timeframe you’re looking at, it’s the only way to make reliable progress towards your destination.
Productivity Post Archive
Routinely Get More Done
In the early 1990s, researchers at MIT accidentally proved you can get more done with less effort by thinking less about what you’re doing. It just takes some preparation, practice, and discipline.
5 Tips to Protect the Big Rocks
Ever finish the day with more to do than when you started? Here are five tips for protecting the big rocks on your schedule from the gravel that comes in.
Searching Evernote
There’s no point to archiving information if you can’t find it again. Evernote can help you save what’s important and find it again when you need it.
How to Pay Bills on Time with Evernote
Paper bills can fall through the cracks if they don’t make it into your paperless system. Here’s how to track bills that need paid using Evernote.
OmniFocus on your Wrist
OmniFocus for Apple Watch is the most focused, tactical version of OmniFocus yet. Get things done without taking your phone out of your pocket.
When Everything’s Important, Nothing Is
What’s important needs to stand out. Don’t let things that are unimportant pull you down.
Talk to the Duck
One of the most useful programming techniques I’ve picked up is one they definitely didn’t cover in college. It can help you sort out all kinds of problems.
5 Types of Productivity Debt
Productivity is about doing less of what you have to do so you can do more of what you love. Here are five ways our choices can get in the way of that, creating more “debts” we need to pay off first.
Get Notified of Important Email Messages
Don’t waste time constantly checking email “just in case” you got an important message. Your email client can help.
Protect Your Focus with Email-Free Zones
Here are some times you definitely should not be checking email. You can start breaking free of your email addiction here.
Outcomes Lead to Actions
Are you focusing on what you want to do? Or what you want to get done? Focusing on results gives you greater flexibility in how you get things done.