The Complete Guide to Deep Work
Based on Cal Newport’s book Deep Work, this comprehensive summary and guide teaches you to harness focus, ditch distractions, and improve your productivity.
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How to Organize Your Home in 2024
We’ve spent a lot of time at home the past few years. You may be feeling a bit understandably tired of your space. Given the…
My workdays used to go something like this: Sit down in front of my computer with a vague idea of what I wanted to get…
Here’s Why Everyone Should Have a Work Shutdown Ritual
These 9 pieces of productivity advice often lead people astray. Try out 9 actionable alternatives that will help you stay productive — and sane!
The Top 9 Productivity Myths That Just Aren’t True
Most of us understand the value of planning and preparation. A sports match without a game plan means fumbling on the field. A big event…
The Complete Guide to Planning Your Day
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
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How Adobe Principal Designer Khoi Vinh Gets Things Done
After 25 years in digital design, Khoi Vinh is still pushing creative boundaries. As a Principal Designer at Adobe, he was named one of Fast…
How to Declutter Your Digital Life & Reclaim Your Attention
Our digital lives today are seemingly limitless worlds of people to follow, music to stream, articles to read, and so on. The flip side of…
How Entrepreneur and Tech Diversity Advocate Tracy Chou Gets Things Done
The Founder and CEO of Block Party talks about how she stays productive during the day, whether she’s working from the West Coast or Europe.
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15 Incredibly Simple Desk Exercises You Can Do at Work
Deep Work for Social Media Managers
The unavoidable truth is this: 2020 was very hard on everyone. From a global pandemic to political unrest, we’ve dealt with a never-ending barrage of…
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How to Ask to Work From Home (With Exact Scripts & Email Templates to Aid Your Negotiation)
More and more workplaces offer employees the opportunity to work remotely. Yet, if it isn’t available in your office, it may seem like a nonstarter.…
Five Powerful Techniques and Tools to Achieve Work-Life Balance
These powerful tips and tools and techniques helped the Productivityist achieve genuine work-life balance.
Remote Work While Traveling Abroad: Candid Advice From People Who’ve Done It
Tips for how to be as successful and productive as possible as a digital nomad, on everything from finances to work setup to travel
Beyond Time Management: Why We Really Procrastinate and How to Finally Stop
Overcoming procrastination isn’t about better time management. Discover what the latest research in psychology and neuroscience says you should be doing instead.
How to Just Say No: 4 Frameworks from the Pros
Although it’s uncomfortable, saying no is how we begin to pursue what matters to us. Learn 4 strategies successful people have devised for saying no and sticking to it…
How to (Actually) Read More Books in 2024
Each January, I think: this is going to be the year I read a lot of books. And each December, I wonder why I didn’t.…
How to Use Todoist’s All-New Command Menu (And Tons of Keyboard Shortcuts!)
What are keyboard shortcuts and why should you use them?
Girls’ Night In Founder & CEO Uses Her To-do List for…Self-Care?
When she was approaching her late 20s, Alisha Ramos, then a software engineer and designer at Vox Media, found she was no longer enjoying going…
Introducing: Your new task view
Over the last few years we’ve heard your feedback to reach comments faster, add longer descriptions, and to skip past sub-tasks (if you don’t need…
What to Do When Your Brain Is Too Tired to Think Straight
Chess grandmasters burn up to 6,000 calories a day during tournaments, just by sitting there and thinking. When I reach a point of mental exhaustion,…
The Science of Analysis Paralysis
When in doubt, Google it. This is my first instinct whenever I face a problem I don’t know enough to solve. As a Millennial, I…
How to Craft the Perfect Daily Schedule
I’ve always been a productivity optimizer. It’s a bit of a hobby of mine to gather data about my productivity in order to track progress,…
How Lifehacker’s Founder Gets Things Done (and Stays Sane)
Gina Trapani, serial entrepreneur and the founder of Lifehacker talks about how she structures her workday for maximum focus and deals with procrastination and other challenges.
Introducing Todoist Boards
When you’re pursuing big goals, sometimes a to-do list just isn’t enough. You need a way to map out the big picture without losing track…
