A curated list of delightful productivity resources.
Inspired by the awesome list thing.
- Inbox Zero – rigorous approach to email management aimed at keeping the inbox (almost) empty at all times.
- Lifehacker – The go-to blog for tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done.
- Pomodoro Technique – Slice your tasks in 25 minute packages and get more done in less time.
- The Bullet Journal – A pen and paper method that turns a simple notebook into a highly efficient productivity tool.
- Rid Your Desktop of Clutter with This Simple Trio of Icons – A little trick that has been keeping my desktop clean for years now.
- Advanced GTD with Remember The Milk – A tutorial on how to implement GTD with Remember the Milk.
- 12+ Tips and Tricks to Work Faster in Microsoft Outlook – Tame your Outlook with these tips in order to get a little bit closer to the awesome Inbox Zero.
- 50+ To-Do List Software Reviewed - To-Do List Software can really help you stay organized. The software helps you get things out of your head and into it, helping reduce your stress.
- Getting Things Done by David Allen – A very simple and efficient time-management method.
- The 5 Choices by Kory Kogon, Adam Merrill, Leena Rinne – An all around productivity methodology dealing with prioritization, scheduling, technology and energy management.
- The Super Student Roadmap (free, but requires subscribing to a mailing list) by John Ramos – An excellent book dedicated to students who want to boost their producivity.
- Box – Very good cloud storage solution for business customers.
- Dropbox – Simple, elegant and versatile (PC, Macs, Android...) cloud storage solution.
- Google Drive – Cloud storage solution deeply integrated in the Google ecosystem.
- OneDrive – Best cloud storage solution for Windows users.
- Mega – A very generous (50G from the get go) and highly secure cloud storage solution.
- Copy – Generous amount of free space and very complete business services.
- Evernote – Evernote can basically become your second brain and remember everything for you.
- Google Keep – A nice and simple Note management system tightly integrated with Google products.
- OneNote – Very good Note management solution, but best for Windows users.
- Any.do – Simple interface, packed with features, currently the favorite to-do list manager at Lifehacker.
- Habitica – Complete your real life daily goals in a role play game (previously called HabitRPG).
- Remember the Milk – Great at managing tags for to-dos and location based tasks.
- Todoist – Powerful and cross-platform productivity tool.
- Wunderlist – Cross-platform, desktop and mobile to-do list manager with apps for iOS and Android, Windows, OS X, and Linux.
- Trello – Kanban method task board.
- Todo.txt – Tired of having complicated apps to organize your tasks? Todo.txt is a technique that uses a single
.txtfile to help you get the job done. - OmniFocus – A Getting Things Done based task manager for Mac OS X and iOS.
- Taskwarrior – An open source command line task manager. Flexible, fast, efficient, and unobtrusive.
- Hello Focus – Hello Focus was built from the ground-up based on scientific studies, to make our users more productive.
- IFTTT – Allows you to create chains of conditional statements (called recipes) between web services in order to make the web work for you and boost your productivity.
- Tasker – Android application that can perform context sensitive custom tasks (e.g. automatically turn on wifi when you arrive home).
- Zappier – Automation tool that allows you to connect hundreds of web services and create automations between the processes.
- Awesome AutoHotKey – AutoHotKey is a free, open-source macro-creation and automation software for Windows that allows users to automate repetitive tasks.