by Sakthitharan S
There are apps you download for fun. And then there are apps like Numpad by Alpa, which quietly become part of your everyday workflow—without the bells and whistles. Just pure utility. If you’re someone who crunches numbers, edits spreadsheets, or navigates creative software that loves a numeric keypad, you know the pain of using a [ ] Read More on Numpad App for iPhone – A Simple Fix for iOS…
Not all weeks are created equal—especially when your schedule doesn’t follow the standard Monday-to-Friday routine. In my case, each day of the week isn’t tied to its name. Instead, I work with a day order system, where classes and routines are labeled as Day 1, Day 2, and so on. If there’s a holiday in [ ] Read More on Calendar Scheduling for Irregular Recurring Events on Shifting Weekdays (in 10…
The way you reward performance defines your culture. The culture around you. The work culture you want to nurture in your team. Reward individuals, and you create competition. A system where personal achievements matter more than collective success. It drives high performers but also breeds rivalry and isolation. Reward teams, and you build interdependence. A [ ] Read More on Why you should not…
Making decisions can be overwhelming. Too many factors. Too many choices. But what if you focused on just one decisive reason? Instead of juggling multiple considerations, identify the single most important factor that aligns with your goal. This simplifies the process and removes unnecessary doubts. For example, when choosing between two jobs, ask yourself: “Which [ ] Read More on The Power of a…
I recently tried NotebookLM by Google. How it works? You upload a set of files into it and can extract insight from that content by asking questions. More or less, it works like chatGPT, except you set the limits of the source from which your question is to be answered. That means it will not [ ] Read More on NotebookLM A research assistant for everyone
My workflow that produced 200+ articles per year There’re plenties of frictions. I am not going to address each one by one. I am just gonna give you my workflow that eliminated most of the friction in my decades of online writing endeavor. So here’s the most fearsome one. Staring at a blank page. I [ ] Read More on Removing all the frictions of writing — to become a successful and consistent…
It is not your boss’s fault — and certainly not yours. If you work better, you get appraised. You get promoted. If you again prove yourself in your new position, then you’ll be promoted again. You get promoted, because you aced in the current position. What if someone stay in that position for a longer [ ] Read More on Peter Principle: Why most bosses are incompetent?
When you feel low when you feel you’re undervalued. Read More on The words that helped me to have a better relationship with my work and with myself.
I was using Magical text expander, until today on my Chrome at work and on my personal Mac. I had issues with Magical when I used it along with Google Docs. (I faced issues during printing, like getting extra empty pages printed). Later I found the culprit and searched for other options. Check my [ ] Read More on Type faster with Text Blaze (a text expander) and share snippets across your personal…
You lost your most successful idea — just because The world’s greatest ideas were just killed brutally even before it was born. What can you do? Write it down. (Anywhere, by any means). Write it down immediately. Never hesitate, never discriminate. If it looks like a sh*t, then you’ve done it right. Writing completes thinking. [ ] Read More on How to make your ideas powerful? The first actionable…
I improved the template code to make the exported content look better on Roam Research (from Readwise). Get the code for $0 -> https://www.buymeacoffee.com/alvistor/e/215736 Read More on Readwise to RoamResearch Export template
Most talented people are perfectionists. They won’t delegate — out of fear that the other person might perfect it. They want to do everything by themselves. But if they invest their time spent on non-core tasks they will accomplish much greater outcomes. Perfection is the enemy of progress. For them, significant or insignificant, they want [ ] Read More on Most Talented people are not successful.…
The following single-word prompts are suitable for text-generative AI services like Google’s Gemini (formerly Bard), ChatGPT, etc to rewrite your ideas better. How to use the following single-word prompts. Just use any one of the following prompts followed by your content. The syntax to use, single-word-prompt the below sentence shift+enter your content here prompt the [ ] Read More on 45+…
WebP is a format that Chrome (Google) encourages websites to use to make the browsing experience faster and better. Unfortunately, images in WebP format won’t work outside Chrome. Especially in Medium and in WordPress too. Whenever I try to download an image using Chrome, if the image is in WebP format, chrome downloads it in [ ] Read More on How to downlaod images in .jpg or .png format instead…
Kaizen; Kai = Improvement. Zen = Good. Read More on Kaizen: Sure-Shot Way to Absolute Self-Growth (no steps to follow, only mindset shift)
Having many problems in life that need to be solved immediately? Feeling the pressure? Feeling like nothing moving in your life but you want to do a lot in your life? Just deal with one crisis at a time. You definitely can’t solve all the problems at once. And focusing on multiple problems will make [ ] Read More on Feel like your life is frozen ? Deal one crisis at a time
You don t have to consider and weigh multiple reasons. One good reason is enough to make a decision. The SDR decision-making framework ( Single Decisive Reason: A Simple and Fast Decision-making Method ) says that. Single Reason, that s all you want to make a decision. The question is which one is that (among all the [ ] Read More on Screw the Confusion in Decision-Making: Choosing Reasons Without…
You make that decision. Whether it is small or big, trivial or critical, even whether you like to or not, you have to make it. Your decision makes you. ‘You’ are the consequence of the entire decision you’ve made your whole life. What makes the decision-making process efficient? Speed. Usually, there will be lots and [ ] Read More on Single Decisive Reason: A simple and fast decision-making…
1. Murphys Law Anything that can go wrong, (if you give the chance) will go wrong. The more you fear something, the more likely it will happen. focus on the path; not the hurdles. 2. Kidlin’s Law If you can write the problem down clearly, then the matter is half solved. Externalize your problems to [ ] Read More on 9 Extremely Useful Laws for Work Life (to remember always)
Stress is unavoidable. Fortunately, there’s something called “good stress”. Read More on Eustress The power benefits of “Good Stress”.
100% working solution to regain your lost revenue due to adblockers. Read More on Anti Adblock Recovery Solution by Google.
A Better deleting and archiving workflow. Read More on The Delete Later Folder
Why do we type to take notes? Why we are not writing like before? It takes more time to write than type something. It’s the faster way, yet more flexible and more productive way. You can easily markdown, highlight, and do everything digitally and carry that content anywhere. Regardless of how well modern technology improved, [ ] Read More on Why writing on paper is the best way to retain for a…
Never run out of generating suitable color palette for your next project. Read More on Coolors.com The Ultimate Color Palette Generator (for web desingers)
Pursue objective productivity. Growing even after you hit the roof. Read More on How to always be progressive? A view beyond being productive.
In the echo chamber, you only hear what you like to hear. No one challenges your ideas and statements. Read More on Echo Chamber Meeting Room. 8 Ways NOT to Become a Victim.
Wrong interpretations and pseudo-facts make them more motivating. Read More on Why You Should NOT Believe Success Stories?
Diarly is a worthy competitor to DayOne? What about Apple's Journaling app? Read More on Diarly vs DayOne vs Apple’s own Journaling app
One-Go publishing (workflow and automation) to Wordpress, Medium and Substack. Read More on Frictionless Writing Publishing Workflow: Ulysses to the Internet.
Procrastination is not altogether bad. Sometimes it does some good too. Read More on Strategic Procrastination: Use it to your advantage.
No, it is not about switching off your devices. And, It is not about handling distractions. Read More on Intermittent Brief Switch Off. A Secret to quick mental performance boost.
3 Quick Ways to Insert Emojis on Mac - without Distracting Your Writing Flow. Read More on 3 Quick Ways to Insert Emojis on Mac – without Distracting Your Writing Flow.
3 Conditions and 2 Tricks to keep you go steady. Read More on How to Use Your High Morning Mental Energy to achieve long-term Goals— esp. for those who find it difficult
Why context switching and instantly moving to the next task is bad? Read More on Attention Residue. What it means to your personal productivity.
20 good reasons to trust and use the Ivy Lee method for yourself. Read More on Why Ivy Lee Method is an efficient task management method? 20 reasons.
The Ivy Lee method is a stupidly simple productivity planning method, yet the idea got him $25,000 in 1918. $2,500 in 1918 is worth $49,807.95 today. Charles M. Schwab, one of the richest men in the world in 1918 paid Ivy Lee for teaching this idea to his executives. It was from then, called “The [ ] Read More on The Ivy Lee method: The simple method for peak productivity.
Playing the meta game and not the actual game is another form of procrastination. Read More on Sophisticated Procrastination. And, How to avoid it?
Know the reason why your mind is not letting you sleep in the night. Read More on ”Revenge Bedtime Procrastination”. This is why you couldn’t sleep (early) at night.
How to multitask without hurting your performance? Read More on The “Doorway effect” of multitasking in personal productivity.
Choosing the optimal number of apps you need to be more efficient. Read More on How many apps do you need to be highly productive and efficient?
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. Read More on Maslow s Hammer The all-in-one (Productivity) tool
Trigger words/points are used to pull the content of your memory to the surface (conscious) that was dumped deep down as a result of not visiting them (the notes) frequently. Read More on Purpose of Trigger points in PKM (No, NOT keywords)
Too much time = wasted time and effort; Too less time = ending up in frustration; Read More on How much time is enough time to complete a task?
18 inevitable things that will happen before, during and after the decision making process. Read More on The inevitables of decision making. (and how to avoid some bad ones)
Google Docs has a feature to compare two different documents with each other and attribute the difference in a new document. It is a different feature than document history or versions of documents. When does it help? I have a version of the document which I am sending to my colleague. He makes changes to [ ] Read More on Compare documents and see the differences in Google Docs (feature)
In my personal productivity system, I use multiple apps for different purposes. Thus my data spread over different areas. There are 5 scopes/areas of management in personal productivity. Each requires at least 1 exclusive app for managing the data. For a project, the data relevant to it resides as tasks in my todo app, and [ ] Read More on What is your SSOT app for Personal Productivity?
The best text-expander extension to work faster with text contents. Read More on Magical Text Expander (for Chrome)
Routine app combines tasks, calendars, and notes at one place to plan efficiently. Read More on Routine (an app) is a blend of Things 3 and Fantastical.
A simple hack to batch tasks inside Things 3 without using Tags I was a long-time Todoist user. After switching to Things 3 (approximately 4 months ago) I looked back to Todoist twice. But, stick to Things 3. Filtered Views (or) Filters feature of Todoist is a crucial feature for me when I was using [ ] Read More on Batching tasks in Things 3
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