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My 23 Go-To Productivity Tools for Remote Work
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Why Focus Is Your Greatest Competitive Advantage at Work (Plus 19 Ways To Actually Do It)
Learn how to overcome distractions and hone your focus.
How to Vanquish Busywork and Spend More Time on What Matters
These tips for improving your focus and productivity will help you avoid getting sucked into busywork.
Why it's so hard to stop thinking about everything we have to get done (and so easy to forget what we've already accomplished)
The Zeigarnik Effect
How to Just Say No: 4 Frameworks from the Pros
Embrace the power of "no" without feeling bad about it.
How Adobe Principal Designer Khoi Vinh Gets Things Done
Khoi Vinh doesn't believe in coffee
“Hey Siri, add a task to my Todoist”
Plus Drag and Drop for iPad and an AirPods giveaway!
Why we prefer complex solutions over simple ones
The Complexity Bias
How I Learned to Suck Less at GTD
Overwhelmed by your GTD task lists? Here are 2 overlooked tips for making the system stick
Beyond Time Management: Why We Really Procrastinate and How to Finally Stop
Understand the "why" behind your inability to start
Improve Your Focus and Find Your Calling by Working in Seasons
The rest of your life is a long time – start working in seasons instead.
How Presidential Campaign Strategist Alex Witt Manages Her Day
Productivity profile of a former chief of staff for candidate Cory Booker
Digital Minimalism and the Radical Power of Unplugging
What Cal Newport can (and can't) teach us about digitally decluttering our lives
How to Learn Anything with the Feynman Technique
Why teaching is the key to understanding
When the flexibility to work anywhere anytime means working everywhere all the time
Work-Life Balance vs. Work-Life Integration
Use the Two-Minute Rule To Stop Procrastinating
A simple technique to ensure your small tasks don’t become big headaches
How to Declutter Your Digital Life & Reclaim Your Attention
Systematically reorganize your files, social media, email, and more and create more mental space for what's important to you
15 Essential Chrome Extensions for Staying Productive in 2020
These are Chrome’s best extensions for saving time, getting organized, and eliminating distractions while browsing the web
"Sorry, I'm too busy for anything important right now"
The Mere Urgency Effect
Forget About SMART Goals: 5 Unconventional Goal Setting Methods to Try Instead
Traditional goal setting didn’t work for you last year? Try on something new...
How to Organize Your Life
10 principles for organizing your work, home, health, fitness, hobbies, finances, and more...
How to keep healthy even when your job has you sitting 8+ hours a day
15 Incredibly Simple Desk Exercises You Can Do at Work
A Masterclass in Getting Stuff Done, Straight from the Experts
Productivity essentials from Adam Grant, Laura Vanderkam, Chris Bailey, and Jill E Duffy!
And how to do it this year guilt-free
Why Unplugging During the Holidays is Imperative for Your Health
How to (Actually) Read More Books in 2024
Lessons learned tripling the number of books I read last year
Five Powerful Techniques and Tools to Achieve Work-Life Balance
With a little planning, it is possible to have it all.
The Complete Guide to Staying Productive Using Voice Assistant
How to save time, get stuff done, and have fun with Amazon Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant
A Realistic Guide to Time Management
Managing your time well isn't just about getting more done
10 Insights That Will Change the Way You Set (and Achieve) Your New Year’s Resolutions
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results.
What Planners Can Learn from Doers… and Vice Versa
Are you a planner or a doer? Learn the productivity strengths and weaknesses of each personality type.
10 Things You Can Do to Literally Change Your Brain
Think the brain you're born with is the brain you're stuck with? Think again...
Busy vs Productive
How to shift your focus and do less to achieve more
The 20% of Productivity Advice That Produces 80% of the Results
Instead of chasing after the latest life hacks, focus on a few key changes that will have an outsized impact on your productivity.
To Inbox Zero or Not to Inbox Zero?
We ask 7 tech leaders whether they think inbox zero is worth it
Learn How to Learn: 4 Repeatable Steps to Master Any New Skill
A real-world guide to mastering any new skill
How your time zone affects your productivity– and what to do about it
Fine tune your productivity based on where you live.
10 Productive Things You Can Do in Under 10 Minutes
Who says there's no such thing as a quick fix?
The Art of Manliness’s Brett McKay on How He Stays Productive
The founder of the popular life advice website uses Todoist for setting and sticking to routines in his work and family life
How to Organize Your Home in 2024
Take back your space with check-lists for every room in your place
The Complete Guide to Mastery
Begin the lifelong journey to become the best at your craft
How to Prioritize When There’s Always More To Do
Advice for managing life's chaos and focusing on what's important
The Art and Science of Loving Your Job
Paralyzed by Perfectionism? Try Rethinking Your To-Do List
Strategies for dealing with perfection paralysis and achieving your biggest goals — despite your best efforts to get in your own way
Productivity Advice, Based on Your Enneagram Personality Type
We all have different productivity hangups. Here’s how to start conquering yours…
How Lifehacker’s Founder Gets Things Done (and Stays Sane)
Serial entrepreneur Gina Trapani talks about how she structures her workday for maximum focus.
Why Sleeping Is the Most Productive Thing You’ll Do All Day and How to Do It Better
Go from tossing and turning to restful sleep.
What Resilience Really Looks Like and How to Build It
Five methods to keep going when you just want to quit
How to Stay Focused in an Age of Distraction: A Beginner’s Guide to Meaningful Productivity
Cut distractions and start doing your best work.
Present Bias: Why You Don’t Give a Damn About Your Future Self
And 3 strategies for achieving your long-term goals anyway, according to science
How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To
The three reasons you don't want to work, and what you can do about them
The 5-Step Plan for Overcoming Your Productivity Addiction
Spend more time reading about productivity than actually getting things done? This article is for you.
Why we're so bad at setting realistic timelines, and how to get better at it (maybe)
The Planning Fallacy
The Best Productivity Apps – A Complete List
These are the apps we recommend for building a complete productivity stack – for iOS, Android, Mac, & Windows
I Declare To-Do List Bankruptcy! (and you should too)
Can't see your way out of your to-do list debt? Read this.
Why we're never satisfied with what we've already accomplished
Hedonic Adaptation
The Science of Analysis Paralysis
How overthinking kills your productivity and what you can do about it
The Complete Guide to Todoist Pro
How To Stop Feeling Productivity Shame
5 strategies to end the cycle of "never enough"
12 Surprising Things I’ve Learned From 100 Interviews With Top Productivity Experts
Why procrastination can be a good thing, how work-life balance obsession can derail you, and other unexpected tips
How Tech Founder Jim Morrison Gets Things Done
The Founder of OneSub, a platform that targets news bias, has used Todoist for 6+ years
How The New York Times’ Smarter Living Editor Gets Things Done
A Productivity Profile with Alan Henry
Use “Temptation Bundling” to Achieve Your Goals
Use the power of instant gratification to get through your least favorite tasks.
How to Craft the Perfect Daily Schedule
Schedule your energy, not your time. And don’t forget to take breaks.
What to Do When Your Brain Is Too Tired to Think Straight
Why you feel mentally exhausted right now and 7 concrete ways to overcome (and work around) it
Don't worry – no one's taking your coffee away ☕️😅
How Coffee Actually Affects Your Productivity
The 15-Minute Habit Worth Making Time For
The benefits of journaling on productivity, and what happens in your brain when you commit words to paper
Quantify Yourself: (Mostly) Free Tools & Strategies to Track (Almost) Every Area of Your Life
That which is measured improves…
An In-Depth Guide To Choosing The Best Online Learning Sites
The options for online learning can be overwhelming. Use this guide to choose the platform that fits your goals (and budget).
How Context Switching Sabotages Your Productivity
Every time you switch between apps and tasks, you leave a little bit of your attention behind. Here's what you can do about it...
Ask Doist: How Do You Stick to a Routine When Life Is Constantly Trying to Break It?
A remote working father of two asks how to create a routine when unexpected interruptions are inevitable
The Ultimate Guide to Personal Productivity Methods
You don't need a to-do list, you need a system you can trust.
The Case for Making Gratitude a Year-Round Habit
A small habit with big benefits. For you and your team.
5 Ways To Stop Hating Your To-Do List
Make your to-do list work for you, not against you.
The Complete Guide to Planning Your Day
The 10-minute productivity practice for achieving more in work and life
Why it's so hard to walk away even when it's the only rational thing to do
The Sunk Cost Fallacy
Why it's so hard to give a damn about our Future Selves
Present Bias
