Tag: productivity

• A to-do menu

  In the latest issue of his newsletter The Imperfectionist, Oliver Burkeman posits that we should treat our to-do lists more like menus: One great benefit of doing this more consciously, though – of facing the fact that lists are menus – is that it shifts the source of gratification. The reward of pleasure, or a…

  Aug 6, 2023

  # advice, lists, Oliver Burkeman, productivity

• Tools of the moment

  It’s been a minute since the last time I took stock of my notetaking/productivity apps, so here’s where I stand currently: I still use paper. The reporter’s notebook I got last Christmas is good for my occasional work-based bullet journaling. Feedly has been my RSS reader of choice for years now. To further declutter my…

  Oct 22, 2021

  # Apple, Dropbox, Google, iCloud, notetaking, paper, productivity, RSS, Simplenote, technology, tools of the moment, WorkFlowy

• Four Thousand Weeks in the Midnight Library

  Matt Haig’s novel The Midnight Library asks: What if you could explore every what-if of your life, specifically those that turned into regrets? How many of your other lives would actually turn out better than your real one? It’s an intriguing philosophical question that quickly turns personal for the book’s protagonist, Nora Seed, who comes…

  Oct 8, 2021

  # attention, Back to the Future, books, fiction, It’s A Wonderful Life, life, Oliver Burkeman, productivity, quotes, review, synchronicity, time