As a productivity coach for knowledge workers, I spend a lot of time talking about being organized at work. And when I say "organized," I usually mean organizing our digital world. A task. A document. A bookmark. A checklist. An email. A note. Most of what we work with [...]
“I will remember that.” Those four words have probably created more unnecessary mental load than we realize. We say them when we put something somewhere “for now,” when someone gives us a piece of information, when we notice that something needs to be done later, or when we tell [...]
Most of my writing is about organizing digital life. Ironically, the physical world—where we were first taught to “keep things in place”—is where we struggle just as much. This is not about decluttering or aesthetics—the domain of professional organizers who can make your space look beautiful. I’m not talking [...]