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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.
Richard Feynman was a Nobel Prize winning physicist who made significant contributions in areas such as quantum mechanics and particle physics. He also pioneered quantum…
How to Learn Anything with the Feynman Technique
Research shows that long work hours are bad for your health and your productivity. Learn four concrete strategies you can start using today to always go home on time and still leave you happy with what you’ve accomplished.
4 Ways to Leave Work On Time Without Feeling Guilty
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
“Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”
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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…
The Unexpected Freedom of an Eight-Hour Workday
Is a flexible work schedule really better? Here’s how one remote worker discovered the productivity, peace-of-mind, and surprising freedom that comes with the traditional 40-hour work week…
The Freelancer’s Guide to Todoist
Whether it’s the promise of the passion economy, a desire for flexibility, or a decision driven by necessity, people are increasingly opting into freelance work.…
Tricked out office perks — often designed to keep employees at work longer — were losing their luster even before the pandemic made them irrelevant…
How to Keep Your Employees Happy Post-Pandemic
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…
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,…
5 Habits for Crafting the Perfect Remote Work Day
When people find out that I work from home and set my own schedule, the conversation is often met with an upbeat, “Wow you’re so…
Building Dream Homes with Todoist
We’ve all worked on projects and become quite familiar with the challenges of coordinating something with various moving parts. However, when that project is building…
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…
The 5-Step Plan for Overcoming Your Productivity Addiction
It’s easy to think that the secret to unlocking our productive potential lies in the next article, video, e-book, or tool. But the (ironic) truth is that reading about productivity takes time and energy away from actually moving our important work forward…If you still feel compelled to click on this article, you need to read it! :D
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…
How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To
Learn the three reasons you have trouble working and what you can do to stop procrastinating and get yourself motivated and productive.
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…
I Declare To-Do List Bankruptcy! (and you should too)
Sometimes I fantasize about quitting my job. For the record (and the benefit of my boss who is probably reading this), I love my job.…
“Sitting is the smoking of our generation.” While it seems a bit dramatic, there’s a rock solid reason this quote is thrown all over the…
15 Incredibly Simple Desk Exercises You Can Do at Work
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 a General Contractor Uses Todoist + GTD to Run His Small Business
Brad Dirks, who has used Todoist since 2015 to run his construction company, Prairie Homesteads, sent Doist an email to tell us that not all…
The 20% of Productivity Advice That Produces 80% of the Results
What minimal, basic changes can I make today that will bring about the most results? There’s no shortage of productivity advice out there on the…
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
How To Stop Feeling Productivity Shame
Stop the cycle of productivity shame, and learn to feel satisfied with how you spend your time — with 5 actionable tips from the editor of RescueTime.
