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…
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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.
If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Make sure you’re heard.
The Remote Worker’s Guide to “Managing Up”
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 people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years. ”
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Step-by-Step Templates for All Your 2024 Goals
Each year, we think the fresh start magic we feel on January 1st will carry us through the next 364 days, but experience tells us…
Productivity Advice, Based on Your Enneagram Personality Type
As someone with significant personal goals and a track record of incompletion to match, the productivity advice I’ve consumed over the years melts together into…
How The New York Times’ Smarter Living Editor Gets Things Done
Alan Henry is no stranger to productivity. He spent six years at Lifehacker and served as their Editor-in-Chief until 2017. Now the Editor of theSmarter…
The Case for Making Gratitude a Year-Round Habit
Gratitude is something our parents try to instill in us as children. Don’t forget to say thank you! Mind your Ps and Qs! As adults…
It’s 10:00 at night, you’re getting ready for bed (because you’re trying really hard to get those 8 hours of sleep you know you need…
Why Unplugging During the Holidays is Imperative for Your Health
Paralyzed by Perfectionism? Try Rethinking Your To-Do List
Perfectionism has, time and again, undermined my efforts to achieve what’s most important to me. Until recently, I put off pursuing what I longed to…
Getting Promoted Isn’t the Same as Being a Leader
Young aspiring leaders often have one all-consuming goal: get promoted. It’s not hard to understand why. Promotions are a symbol of advancement, generally doled out…
Why Focus Is Your Greatest Competitive Advantage at Work (Plus 19 Ways To Actually Do It)
The science is in and the results are undeniably bleak: Context switching — constantly shifting your attention from one app, screen, or task to another…
The free version of Todoist is incredibly robust. It has been designed that way intentionally because we want to empower as many people as possible…
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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.
How Wallpaper Designer Sian Zeng Uses Todoist to Stay Inspired & Collaborate From Home
After she graduated with a bachelor of arts in textile design from Central Saint Martins-University of the Arts London, wallpaper creator Sian Zeng planned to…
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.
10 Insights That Will Change the Way You Set (and Achieve) Your New Year’s Resolutions
The year is very quickly coming to an end. It’s the perfect time to evaluate what you accomplished in 2019 and begin planning for how to make 2020 even better.This time around, resolve to take a smarter approach to setting and achieving your New Year’s resolutions with these 10 science-backed, battle-tested pieces of advice from the experts.
Using Todoist to Successfully Manage the Symptoms of ADHD
Jonathan Moy de Vitry, a successful innovation consultant in Geneva, Switzerland, also happens to be one of millions of adults worldwide who live with ADHD. He shares how he uses Todoist to manage his symptoms and achieve his goals in spite of his diagnosis.
5 Ways To Stop Hating Your To-Do List
For some, just the idea of having a to-do list feels like a burden. It’s a list of chores and long overdue assignments, things that…
Why It’s So Hard to Focus at Work (Hint: It’s not you, it’s your workplace)
Think back to the last time you encountered a difficult challenge at work– one of those problems that require hard, long thought and perhaps some…
How to Disagree With Your Coworkers Productively
A short, yet effective mental checklist for disagreeing in a way that’s guaranteed to win coworkers’ respect
How to Organize Your Family’s Tasks and Projects With Todoist
Set up a joint productivity system with your significant other and children
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.
The Art and Science of Loving Your Job
When you’re struggling to feel good about the work you do, quitting your job to “follow your passion” isn’t your only course of action. Discover what the research has to say on how we can all be happier in our work, regardless of what we do for a living.
