Tag: productivity
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The greatest productivity hack of all time
The greatest productivity hack of all time is working less. Slack recently published new research into desk worker productivity. It is a worthy read – however, it sheds light on something that most desk workers already inherently know: longer hours do not mean greater productivity. I have put a lot of personal focus on trying…
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Dwayne Harris’ typical day
Dwayne Harris’: Now I “work” at pretty much any time: weekdays, weekends, afternoons, late at night, whenever. But at times that work best for me, in the priority/order I think makes sense, doing things I actually want to spend my time doing. I’m happy so far. Good for you Dwayne. Side note: I appreciate Dwayne’s…
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But she’s a girl on Johnny.Decimal
But she’s a girl…: Things were scattered all over the place, randomly distributed among badly-named folders, and often duplicated. It took my several days of chipping away at it in spare moments to get it all organised, but I feel immensely better for it. She’s doing better than I am. I gave it a try…
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Johnny•Decimal
Johnny•Decimal: When we kept everything on paper, organised people had these things called filing cabinets. They stored all of their documents in them in a structured way so that they could find them again. Now those same people store all of their files in arbitrarily named folders on their company’s shared drive and wonder why…
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Ethan Marcotte’s typical day
Ethan Marcotte, the always brilliant responsive web design guy: My day starts in earnest around 9AM, or as close to it as I can get. I’ll open up both email and Slack briefly to see if anything important’s come in, and reply to anything pressing. After that, I’ll close both2, look over my calendar, and…
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Hidde de Vries’ typical day
Hidde de Vries: Sometimes there’s a book I can’t stop reading or a guest in one of the late night talk shows that I don’t want to miss. I go to bed with a book. Love his book page. Also his last name hits a chord. My grandfather changed our last name from Bijl de Vroe…
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Mitch’s typical day
Mitch, in his typical day post, regarding his 6:15am Twitter habit: This probably isn’t a great morning habit but four years of endless crises have pretty much drilled into me to take a glance at what’s going on in the world as soon as my eyes are open. Break the habit Mitch! Take drastic measures…
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Matthias Ott’s typical day
Matthias Ott: I envy people like Sara Soueidan or Dan Mall who get up really early to do creative, meaningful work in the calmer morning hours before the busyness of the day kicks off. And although I’ve always been a night owl, I am currently starting to enjoy going to bed and getting up a…
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Martin Wolf’s typical day
Martin Wolf: 7:00am — Hobby time. I paint Warhammer miniatures. Fascinating to see people’s hobbies sprinkled into these. I also like that this series of posts is beginning to run away with itself where people are chiming in that haven’t been tagged by anyone. If you’re sitting there reading this post, right now, please write one!
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Dave Rupert’s typical day
Dave Rupert: Also, in a week or so I’ll be in my new backyard office workspace. This will hopefully shift my productivity windows a bit and enforce a proper lunch routine where I leave the physical office to eat in the main house. The distance will also probably temper late night gaming. I see that…
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Anton Sten’s typical day
Anton Sten: 8.30 – 9.00 PM – Answer Slack / Figma / Notion comments that come in so they’ll have a chance to respond again ahead of my day tomorrow. I’ll keep this time to a minimum. Anton works with a bit of a time shift with his team so this is really smart. He’s setting…
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Cassie Evans’ typical day
Cassie Evans’ typical day: One thing that doesn’t change is that I try to approach my days gently. I listen to how I’m feeling and adjust my plans to fit around that. I also try to find a highlight each day to focus on. Super interesting approach. I need to give this more thought. More typical…
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Chris McLeod’s typical day
Chris McLeod: Like most people I suspect I have days where I don’t feel like I’ve actually achieved anything, and others where I’m amazed by how much it seems I’ve made it through. I find the trick is to just keep going steady. Those really productive days are usually the culmination of work you pushed…
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Rob Weychert’s typical day
Rob Weychart, tagged by Dan Mall, whom I tagged: I keep my personal and professional web browsing segregated to different browsers, and I use a plugin to block Twitter, news, and other productivity draining sites during work hours. I used to do something similar. I think I had an app that blocked blacklisted URLs. But…
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Sara Soueidan’s typical day
Sara Soueidan, who was tagged by Dan, whom I tagged: I think of day and time management in terms of blocks. Or, chunks of time, so to speak. I divide my day into “activity blocks” that are then distributed to occupy different time slots across the day. Her post is a must-read even if you haven’t been following along…
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Mike Carbone’s typical day
Mike Carbone, tagged by Dan Mall, whom I tagged: 10:30am: Wake up OK, straight out of the gate this young lad is showing off. He continues… 4pm-6pm: Lift and work. This is something new I’ve been trying and it’s been going really well! I bring my laptop to the basement, blast some music, pump out some sets and write…
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Noah Read’s typical day
Noah Read: Most of the fall was absorbed with house-hunting, purchasing, finding new renters for our previous home, prepping for the move, moving, and unpacking. This has taken any spare moment and more than all my spare energy and attention to make happen. In July, as Eliza and I soldiered on towards our new home’s…
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Jeremy Keith’s typical day
Jeremy Keith, whom I tagged: Y’know, in the Before Times I think this would’ve been trickier. What with travelling and speaking, I didn’t really have a “typical” day …and I liked it that way. Now, thanks to The Situation, my days are all pretty similar. Waking up at 8:30 seems like such a luxury! I…
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Dan Mall’s typical day
Dan Mall, whom I tagged: 7:30pm–8:30pm: Optional work wrap-up time if there’s anything urgent from the day. I envy that he has that evening time-slot to be productive. I find that my evenings are far less productive after I get into wind-down mode. I wouldn’t mind adding an hour or so of productivity to the end…
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Chris Coyier’s typical day
Chris Coyier: That long of a workday means that I can be very flexible without feeling behind. If I need to run any sort of errand, I do. If I need to stay home a morning, I do. If I need to come home “early”, I do. And I can do that without feeling like…
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My typical day
Here is a general overview of a typical day for me. Routine makes me happy but it also lends to my productivity. The more each day is the same the more I can accomplish. I’m sharing it because I would like to see other people post their typical days – as mundane as they may…
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Using Spotlight and Shortcuts to create daily notes in Simplenote
While trialing Obsidian I became fond of a core plugin it had called Daily notes. Activating the plugin adds a button in the interface that creates a new note with a name based on today’s date. It makes keeping a daily log extremely easy. Since I primarily use Simplenote I wanted the same thing on…
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But she’s a girl on Obsidian
But she’s a girl…: I wanted something that operated on plain-text files kept in a local folder, and that also had a graph view: that was the feature in org-roam that really made the difference between me just writing notes and seeing how they fitted together and building ideas out of them. Obsidian has both of…
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Obsidian didn’t stick, for me
Back in May I came across Obsidian, a knowledge base app that stores your information in Markdown files. I used it a bit here and there until, in July, I stumbled onto Ton Zijlstra’s post about Obsidian which motivated me to try it in earnest. I was excited to have a note taking app that…
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Annie Mueller on the merits of the mundane
Annie Mueller: Maintenance tasks—like washing the dishes, folding the clothes—not only keep the basics of life functioning, but they also honor life itself. We are not too good for any of this. We are blessed to be here. Let me remember this as I wipe the table. Let me remember this as I sweep the…
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Six ways to tackle boring tasks
Earlier this year I wrote a rather blabbering post about how you should reward yourself while you’re doing tasks that you don’t like doing. I gave the example of treating yourself to your favorite drink for filing your quarterly taxes. Well, it turns out I’m not alone in thinking that this is a good idea. Timo…