Tag Archives: Productivity

The three types of email 8

People are often surprised that I have an empty email inbox most of the time. Actually, it’s really not difficult. Of course, until I found out about the secret of having an empty inbox, I was completely overwhelmed all the time, and always had thousands of messages in various states of read, unread, filed or [...]

Ten helpful things on my Mac right now 3

If you’ve been reading this blog for more than a week or two, you’ll know that I’m always on the lookout for ways of getting things done – specifically, software that helps me achieve more with less effort – or at least in a way that makes it feel like less effort. I like doing [...]

Standing up to work 1

Over the past few months, I’ve been doing most of my work standing up. Part of that came about because I was starting to get a bit of a sore back. But I had also seen a couple of articles online about the benefits of standing up to work as opposed to sitting down all [...]

Playing cards with my work 1

I have a new productivity system. Well, actually – it’s a “supplementary” productivity system. I already have a fairly sophisticated productivity system in place, and by most people’s standards, I think I tend to be reasonably efficient. I get a lot done. My email inbox is empty each day. As far as I can tell, [...]