The Power of the Done List

January 2, 2024January 1, 2024 by Jason Brubaker

Have you ever felt that traditional to-do lists don’t work for you? If you’re running your own business, leading a team, or just trying to get through your day, seeing a bunch of un-done tasks first thing in the morning can make it feel like you’re starting the day already falling behind. But what if … Read more

How to Do a Time and Motion Study to Make Real Change

November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 by Matthew Stibbe

Please note that without explicit markers for subheadings in the text, such as font size or bold text formatting, this list is created based on the context and structure of the provided content. The famous management thinker Socrates once said: “The unexamined life is not worth living.” As 2024 approaches, everyone is making resolutions. Most … Read more

How to Master the Art of To-Do Lists by Understanding Why They Fail

January 2, 2024November 1, 2023 by Janet Choi

The to-do list is an inescapable, age-old productivity tool. It is our very human attempt to create order in our disorderly lives and express our ability to impose self-control. Most of us, including to-do list haters, keep one, and the fact is, they can work when you find the to-do method that works for you. … Read more

The 15 Best Productivity Podcasts of 2023

November 2, 2023November 1, 2023 by Paige Picard

Listening to the best productivity podcasts are a great way to spend your downtime. With the average commute time in the United States at 25.4 minutes, a podcast can fit perfectly within that time frame. Rather than tuning out to the same playlist you hear every day, tune into a podcast — specifically about productivity.

Below is a list of the 15 best productivity podcasts to listen to in 2023

Without further ado, here is our list of the best productivity podcasts that will teach you the tips and tools needed to better manage your time so you can get more done each day.

The Biology Behind Productivity

October 27, 2023October 24, 2023 by Jonas Fischer

Superb time-management skills are worthless when you’re feeling unmotivated, distracted or tired at work. Until robots take over our day-to-day workloads, our productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical well-being.

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The expectation at work to remain competent, motivated and attentive for the entire workday puts a huge strain on our biological resources. Thankfully modern science has given us a better understanding of how our bodies work, which can help us leverage our physiology to work smarter.

By implementing a few biological disciplines, you’ll be able to work with your body and avoid unproductive behaviors like impulsivity, sleep deprivation, and stress.

Here are some hacks based on the biology of productivity that can help you and your team perform at their best:

Why You Should Scrap Your Analog To-Do List

October 27, 2023October 24, 2023 by Georgina Parfitt

Bullet Journaling is the new trend piquing the interest of stationary lovers, productivity seekers, and the wanna-be-organized. Faced with an often overwhelming selection of digital tools in their workplaces, people are turning back to the traditional to-do list: a list of tasks on a piece of paper.

The fascination is in its simplicity. Visit the original Bullet Journal website and you’ll find instructions for how to use a system of dots, arrows, and crosses to organize to-do items.

People are now used to downloading apps for work and learning to use them, synching them with a collection of other tools. To see a tool that simply tells you to “go buy a notebook” is such a blast from the past, it’s grabbing people’s attention.

It’s like the rise of vintage clothing and traditional teaching methods. In the quest for perfect productivity, people are tempted by the idea of a simpler time. Could going back to pen and paper really make us more productive than ever?

How to Finally Make Peace With Your To-Do List

October 31, 2023October 24, 2023 by Janet Choi

The person who’s going to complete all the tasks on your list is not you. It’s some superhuman version of you, who gets all the things done without breaking a sweat. Perhaps the biggest problem and allure of the to-do list is how aspirational it is.

In the early days of iDoneThis, there used to be a to-do task feature. While we decided to focus on helping people harness the benefits of keeping and sharing a done list, we gained some fascinating insight into what really happens when it comes to your to-do list along the way.

Two of the most interesting discoveries we made were how 41% of to-do items were never finished, while a whopping 85% of dones were unplanned tasks that never started out as to-do’s. Don’t be one of them and master the to-do list by completing the tasks and reading about them.

There’s a huge gap between what we hope to get done and what we actually accomplish — and that might just be part of the human condition. The problem is when we let our to-do lists dishearten and demoralize us because we feel we’ve somehow failed. The way to conquer those negative feelings is to look backwards.

The 20 Best Productivity Coaches and Experts to Follow on Twitter

October 24, 2023 by Walker Donohue

Time management skills are one of the most invaluable skills you can have. Everyone is busy and everyone wants to do more, but we all only have the same 24 hours to split between work, sleep, and fun. To meet this demand, an entire industry of productivity coaches, experts, and gurus has risen up to … Read more

18 Best Places To Store Your Team’s Documents

January 2, 2024October 24, 2023 by I Done This Support

You should always store team documents in a secure and organized manner is imperative for businesses because it isn’t an ordinary document it is a sensitive file that needs to be protected at all costs. Documentation is to your business what water is to fish. It’s everywhere. You need it to survive and grow. A … Read more

The Ultimate Remote Tool Stack For 2020

October 24, 2023 by I Done This Support

This is a guest post from Lisa Banks, an expert in workplace communication and writer at content marketing agency Animalz.

Choosing the right tools for your remote team is second only to hiring the right people.

There are a number ted talks for teamwork available to inspire your remote team but choosing the right kind of tools is more important than that.

Remote tools offer structure, streamline operations, and hold your company together as it grows. And you need a lot of them. You need remote tools for team communication, tools for talking to people outside your organization like customers and vendors, tools for managing the business, tools for hiring and development, and so on.

But picking the right tools for a distributed company is not easy with so many to choose from. I’ve whittled through every remote tool in the most common categories to pull together a list. All the following tools are ones my team uses or have come highly recommended by other remote teams.

If you’re setting up a distributed team this year, these are the remote work tools you need.