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Review: The Productivity Blueprint

If you’ve been looking for a program that will not only elevate your productivity now but for years to come, then you’re going to want to give The Productivity Blueprint some serious consideration. Developed by Asian Efficiency, the team that brought you OmniFocus Premium Posts, The Productivity Blueprint delivers the goods on several fronts. They […]

Wrapping Up And Ramping Up

The start of the year can be both rejuvenating and overwhelming. There’s a couple of reasons for this. First, many people tackle new challenges and resolutions that require a great deal of willpower and discipline. Secondly, many people are working hard to close out the calendar year that recently came to an end and are

The One Email Trick That Keeps My Inbox In Shape

Email is a real pain point when it comes to truly being productive. I’ve discussed a slew of thoughts on email strategies at length here at the blog, but if you’re looking for one trick you can use to get your inbox in better shape now, then you’re in luck. This trick is going to

A Productive Life: Collect, Organize, Review And Eliminate

The following is the third and final post in a series on leading a productive life by Bojan Dordevic. Bojan is an Internet marketing professional with a passion for all things productive, and is the co-founder of Alpha Efficiency Magazine (I make an appearance in the second of issue of said publication). You can invite

My iPhone Screens, Explained

I recently posted a photo of my iPhone 4S home screen on Facebook and Twitter, and people started asking about why certain apps had a home there. Rather than try to explain it over social media, I decided I’d write a post about it. I also decided to up the ante a bit and offer up all of my iPhone screens in the process.

Give Your Mind Fallow Time

The following is a guest post by Anabelle Fournier. Anabelle is a web copywriter and a blogger at Writing in my Head, where she mostly explores the writing life, sometimes reviews books and maybe experiments with themes a little too much. She’s still looking for the perfect work-life balance but has perfected the art of

How To Use Evernote To Store And Organize Your Ideas

I write for a lot of different sites and I write for a lot of different projects (books, etc.). Keeping track of what should go where can be a real challenge in a writing app itself (I use Byword for articles and Scrivener for larger writing projects) because you can really only store things in

Please Take The 2014 Productivityist Reader Survey

One of the biggest takeaways I received from New Media Expo was the suggestion that you should survey your readers. As I sat in Michael Hyatt’s session, I realized that it was time for me to develop one for Productivityist, and he even told the audience that we could “steal his questions” if we liked.1

The Power Of Sleep

I’ve been re-reading Tony Schwartz’s book The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, and this guest post by Robyn Adams definitely speaks to a major theme in the book: the power of sleep. Robyn has learned to simplify life and increase productivity so she can enjoy life to the fullest. Her blog Living the Simple Life