Do you know how Jeff Bezos starts his day? Well, I don’t know. Frankly, I don’t care also. All of us have different body clocks and different profiles, no one knows you better than yourself, and so you are the best judge of when and how you start your [...]
It always pays to hasten your typing once you have the content ready in your mind, more so if you are not a formally trained typist. Here are some ideas: The good old Copy-Paste technique is a great force multiplier when you are creating content or writing messages and [...]
Here is an interesting way to maintain a journal that makes you more productive as well. Journal means different things to different people and what I mean here is recording everything that you do in your day. Not exciting? Hear me out! First and foremost (as you would expect [...]
How often this happens to you when you want to share a photo, or a video clip or a meme to someone and after a tiring and disappointing search in the gallery app of your phone, you promise him or her that you would send it at later time, [...]
A web browser is central to our daily work. Using it smartly and efficiently can greatly enhance productivity. One of the most powerful yet often underutilized features of any browser—particularly Google Chrome—is the bookmarks system. A well-maintained bookmark structure allows you to revisit your favorite web pages instantly, saving [...]
It’s no exaggeration to say that calendar apps have become the lifeline of our workdays. They liberate our minds from the mental burden of remembering future commitments and provide a clear picture of our availability for new ones. To make your calendar even more effective, here are some practical [...]
We always have a few goals and dozens of tasks to meet those goals. Some of the tasks progress smoothly, but some appear to not move, which are the proverbial frogs in our plate. There are these three strategies to make progress on them: split split more split some [...]
First thing, I’m not kidding – it can make a big difference if the home screen of your phone is well organized. Second thing, yes, most of us are aware of the customizability of the home screen and we do organize it occasionally but it’s not with the rigor [...]
We always have a published or unpublished spec of the quality of our deliverables, with which our stakeholders are satisfied. Checklists help you to remain consistent with that spec. The second benefit is that your mind is no more trying to remember this knowledge, the next moment you capture [...]