Technology has clearly changed how we work. Mobile devices, for example, have allowed for a more flexible work environment, making it easier to work from anywhere on almost any device. Whatever changes we adopt, the bottom line remains the same; we want to get our jobs done and done well. And when the technology we’re…

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m really not a morning person. I’ve tried to get myself going in the early hours of the morning, but I’ve always been more of a night owl – my creative juices seem to flow better in the later hours. So I’d be the last person to suggest that…

Ebb and flow. Contraction and expansion. Highs and lows. It’s all about the cycles of life. The entire course of our life follows this up and down pattern of more and then less. Our days flow this way, each following a pattern of more energy, then less energy, more creativity and periods of greater focus…

As director of product marketing at Adobe, I speak with customers everyday about how they can better maximize their productivity in the workplace. They often tell me they spend more time figuring out how to do their jobs than actually doing them. Regularly faced with the staggering volume of information, they have difficulties keeping everyone on…

“Alright everybody…back to ones.” This is what you’ll hear if you’re working on a film set and they’re going to reshoot a scene. I’ve been an extra in several films, and the more times I heard that phrase meant the more hours I was going to be spending on set that day. It wasn’t the greatest…

In my last post, I focused on ways to automate tasks on your computer, from backing up to document writing. Automation is something that computers are especially good at — it is, after all, what they do. An important part of mastering your computer, though, lies not in the software you use but the attitude…

Computers have the potential to vastly increase our personal productivity. They are also, of course, capable of becoming vast time-sinks, sucking our productive moments away in a haze of frustration and imposed patience. Alas, the line between one and the other can be exceedingly thin. Here, then, are five ways to keep on the “productive”…

Backing up your data is an essential part of digital life and protects you from losing important information. But when something goes wrong with one of your systems, it can mean you have to sift through thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of files for each project you’re involved with. Over the last few months, I set…

I can’t escape the fact that having a real centralized project list for the things I’m doing is helping. I want to believe that I have tons of excess capacity in my brain. I want to think that I remember everything I’ve got on the go. But I don’t. And maybe you don’t, either. I’ve…

When you are timeboxing tasks you are taking specific blocks of time and spending them doing one task at a time. This works really well for writing and staying focused. You allot, for instance, an hour to write; and then after that hour take a break and, maybe, make lunch or do your washing. When…

An interesting article was published on Extreme Tech this week that argues that “messier” people are more productivity than extremely organized people. The article argues that “organized chaos” allows you to be more efficient and productive. Taking the time to stay organized everyday takes time and money, but letting your work stay…

Todo list is an ingredient to be ultra productive. With so many daunting tasks in our daily life, having a todo list is a must. After you’ve decided to keep a todo list, the question will be: “where should I keep it?” Where do you keep your todo list right now? Will you change the way…

After reading my article here last week, and clicking through some of the related links to find this one, a Lifehack.org reader sent me an email with this request; “I notice you mention the Daily 5 Minutes pretty frequently, and seems you’ve written a lot about it. Can you point me to one how-to…

Similar to the Layered Desktop Wallpaper we showed you, this wallpaper provides a clear reminder of the GTD Workflow. What I’d like to see is something similar to a desktop workflow diagram, where each area has an access point, or a folder. ie. Stuff is a folder, Projects is a folder or…

Getting Things Done, we’re all trying but where do we start? LifeDev have pulled out a handy chart from David Allen’s book, appropriately titled, Getting Things Done. What this chart does is outline the steps of what to do with the ‘stuff’ that comes into your life, simply and most handy of all, visually…