80 How-To Sites Worth Bookmarking

Sitting on my dining room table, I currently have half a dozen projects in various states of doneness. Some involve vivisected computer parts, others will eventually be wearable and a few are just cool things I’ve ran across on the internet. I like doing things myself — I think the DIY bug is one of the best communicable diseases in the lifehack community.

These eighty sites are the places I… » Continue

July 3 | By Thursday | Tagged: | 13 comments»

Get Out More: 6 Ways to Be More Social

July 2 By Dustin | 3 comments»

Whether you’re a web worker, an overworked corporate employee, or just a homey sort, you’ve probably heard the refrain: “Get out more!”

Yes, you could take a walk, take to drinking alone in a seedy bar, or drive around looking at billboards, but it’s likely that just physically getting out of the house isn’t all you need. No, those people who care about you are telling you to go out and… » Continue

Your Guide to Getting Productive with Gmail: Managing the Flow

Last time we redirected all of our email accounts to the one place, our central email hub at Gmail. Once you have all your accounts trickling into Gmail, you’ve got to manage that flow of information so that a) it’s possible to get through all of your email in fifteen minutes or less and b) it’s easy to find next week, next month and next year.
The Inbox is Sacred
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June 25 | By Joel | Tagged: email, gmail, information management | 10 comments»

One System To Rule Them All

I first became interested in what is now known as lifehacking because of a simple problem: I wanted to be able to get through all of my emails in 15 minutes, rather than the 15 hours it seemed to take. Then I became interested in personal finance. After that, it was study skills, and then project management. These areas are fairly disparate, but my exploration of each came down… » Continue

June 24 | By Thursday | Tagged: application, Productivity, tool | 10 comments»

4 Reasons Why Blogging is a Noble Passion

I initially began the blog with a 20% desire to help others, and 80% to cynically make the kind of money the A-list bloggers are making.
- Urban Monk.net
I stumbled upon an interesting blog, Urban Monk, several days ago. As I read the brief history of the blog, I felt harmony with the passion and motivation that the author, Albert, has for the blogging.

I began blogging four months ago with… » Continue

June 24 | By Shilpan | Tagged: blogging, connection, passion, relationship | 20 comments»

Promote Yourself! Seeking Sponsors for Our Great Big Summer Giveaway

It’s summertime, and the living is easy. Your daddy is rich and your ma is good looking. What could be better?

How about a Great Big Summer Giveaway here a Lifehack? We’re organizing a big shindig for August, just in time for Back to School and the Christmas rush, when pulling it together for the crazy fall is on everyone’s mind.

Do you or your company have a… » Continue

June 23 | By Dustin | Tagged: contest, giveaway, sponsorship | 1 comment»

Your Guide to Getting Productive with Gmail: Account Consolidation

Gmail is a powerful tool, but many users of this service aren’t tapping into its full potential. To help you get more productive and get the most out of Gmail, I’m going to spend the next few articles talking about the most effective features of the software and the techniques and practices you can use to make the most of it.

In this first installation, we’ll talk about account consolidation. This… » Continue

June 23 | By Joel | Tagged: email, gmail, information management | 19 comments»

Lifehack Live for June 23: Pamela Skillings, Author of Escape from Corporate America

In this episode of Lifehack Live, I spoke with Pamela Skillings about her new book, Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams. For more information about Pamela, her book, or her “Escape Clubs”, visit the Escape from Corporate America website.

Thanks for listening.

Subscribe to the Lifehack Podcast Feed via RSS or… » Continue

June 23 | By Dustin | Tagged: career, corporate, entrepreneur, escape, job, planning, podcase | 3 comments»

3 Ways to Hack Your Fitness Routine

As much as you all love spending hours in the gym, I have some bad news for you. Your workouts are too long, inefficient, and frankly they’re just plain boring. Here are 3 tips you can use to trim that workout down into an efficient, productive and time-saving routine.
1. Use Full Bodied Workouts
Let’s face it, most of you reading this are computer geeks. Not bodybuilders. So what makes you think… » Continue

June 21 | By Jamie | Tagged: cardiovascular, exercise, gym, weight, workout | 11 comments»

Back to Basics: Your Inbox

This is the first post in an ongoing series I’m calling “back to Basics”, a “refresher course” in personal productivity. For people just starting to grapple with issues of productivity, it will serve as an introduction to the basic concepts that underlie much of what we write here at Lifehack. For more advanced readers, it will serve as a reminder of what you thought you were setting out to do… » Continue

June 20 | By Dustin | Tagged: back-to-basics, capture, collection, gtd, inbox | 15 comments»

7 Ways to Be Greener and More Productive with Your Printer

Your printer is probably a utilitarian workhorse that you don’t think about until it’s broken. Why not spend a moment to consider the use of your printer so you can save some time and some paper too? Here are seven practical, easy-to-implement tips:

1. Keep supplies at the point of use. You can use Velcro (I like Industrial Strength) to stick frequently used supplies directly onto the side of… » Continue

June 20 | By Lorie | Tagged: hack, office, organization, printing, supply, tip | 8 comments»

4 Tech Tips to Keep Ahead of the Game for New Entrepreneurs

Thinking about starting a business or trying to make some cash out of the web? Technology can enable people and it can just as easily distract. We’ve got a few tips for you to consider to cut down on those distractions and costs and get more done, more efficiently and more effectively.

These tips all center on one thing: technology, whether it involves a specific device or just the way… » Continue

June 19 | By Joel | Tagged: business, entrepreneur, gps, information, rss, skype, u, virtual assistant | 9 comments»

A Shove with Love - A Kickstart to Change.

Stepping into reality
Thought we might be a little less theoretical and philosophical, and a bit more practical today. Always nice to get out of our head and into reality. We all have behaviours and habits that we need to change and from time to time we all need a little encouragement and support, possibly a vigorous shove, to get under way. So I’m here today to give you a

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June 19 | By Craig | Tagged: change, habit, personal growth, personal-development, self-improvement | 22 comments»

Summertime: Rehab Time for Workaholics

How to use a vacation to conquer work addiction

Workaholism is as much an addiction as those to drugs, tobacco or alcohol. Those who suffer from it crave the constant ‘highs’ they get from throwing themselves into work’s deadlines, problems and constant hustle and bustle. Even those near-impossible targets and deadlines can provide an adrenaline rush. Staring into the abyss of an empty order-book or hurling yourself headlong into the… » Continue

June 19 | By Adrian | Tagged: slowing down, stress, vacation, workaholism | 2 comments»

4 Random Tips to Get More Done with Your PC

I’ve had several challenges in the last couple weeks, some of which required some creative solutions. Since some of you might find yourself facing the same challenges at some point, I thought I’d share this motley collection of tips with you.

Jott to Evernote

If you read Joel’s post, 7 Ways to Use Evernote last month, you already know… » Continue

June 18 | By Dustin | Tagged: audio, capture, evernote, google-docs, jott, note, powerpoint, spellcheck, tip, voice-recognition, word-count | 15 comments»

Be Accountable

I like to think that I am a very good driver, if not an expert. Even so, once in a while I miss a red light, I speed. and sometimes even make a wrong turn. Does that mean I should quit driving altogether?

I don’t think so. I need to be aware of these errors and be careful. Similarly, it is not unusual to miss a project deadline. No… » Continue

June 17 | By Raj | Tagged: accountability, leadership, responsibility | 5 comments»

How to Make Yourself Indispensable

Let me ask you a question: could you disappear? If you didn’t show up at work tomorrow, if you weren’t home at 6:00 for dinner, if nobody ever heard from or saw you again, would it matter?

OK, these are depressing things to think about, but that’s exactly how many people feel, day in and day out, in their jobs and even at home. They feel unappreciated, unchallenged… » Continue

June 16 | By Dustin | Tagged: difference, growth, indispensable, self-development, social | 22 comments»

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