Recommendations
- The Only Productivity Hack That Works on Me: Never underestimate the power of a to-do list
- by Amanda Mull; The Atlantic, Sep. 14, 2023
- Do the Real Thing
- by Scott H. Young; May 2020
- Sam Altman: Productivity
- Jerry Seinfeld's Productivity Secret
- Lifehacker
- Deep Habits: The Importance of Planning Every Minute of Your Workday
- Cal Newport blog
- Dave Lee: My Productivity System
- Focus and desired outcomes
- How to Study: A Brief Guide
- by William J. Rapaport, SUNY Buffalo
Articles
- Building a Smarter To Do List
- 43 Folders
- Cal Newport on Why We'll Look Back at Our Smartphones Like Cigarettes
- GQ Magazine; Jan 23, 2019
- Embrace Boredom and Stay Where You Are Until You Start Work
- Lifehacker
- Fake Rocks... and Just Enough to Start
- 43 Folders
- The Feynman Technique: The Best Way to Learn Anything
- Getting Started is Everything
- Lifehacker
- How I Got My Attention Back
- by Craig Mod; Backchannel, Jan. 13, 2017
- How to reduce 'attention residue' in your life
- by Madeleine Dore; BBC Worklife, Jan. 31, 2020
- How to Use 43 Folders
- How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains
- by Stanislas Dehaene; Literary Hub, Jan. 30, 2020
- HOWTO: Be More Productive
- The Important Habit of Just Starting
- Lifehacker
- Inbox Zero
- 43 Folders
- Learning needs to be effortful to be effective
- by Gian Segato
- Roam: Why I Love It and How I Use It
- by Nat Eliason
- Success is not a matter of luck–it's an algorithm
- Tips on Effective Time Management
- Train Your Brain for Monk-Like Focus
- Lifehacker
- Trimming the Attention Sails
- Like it Matters
- Use a Timer as a Productivity Booster and Sanity Minder
- Lifehacker
Getting Things Done
- 43 Folders
- David Allen Company *
- David Allen Video
- The Do Lectures
- Mind Tools
- MineZone Wiki
- Notes from GTD
- Org-Mode
Miscellaneous
- 4-Hour Workweek
- DIY Planner
- Lifehacker
- myndology
- Pandoc
- Universal document converter
- Smarterware
- Year Compass
Tools
- Evernote *
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- GooSync
- iWork Community
- OmniOutliner
- Roam Research
- A note taking tool for networked thought
- WhizFolders
- WordPress
Task Managers
- OmniFocus
- GTD (Mac only)
- Remember the Milk
- Non-hierarchical
- Ta-da Lists
- Non-hierarchical
- Taskpaper
- GTD (Mac only)
- Things
- Mac only
- Todoist *
- Non-hierarchical