A new study in the psychology journal Acta Psychologica suggests that improving your working memory changes your perception of time and makes it seem like time moves faster. Working memory controls your ability to pay attention, plan and remember things. It’s also a skill you can improve. More »
Android: Todo.txt, our favourite plain text to-do list manager, has updated its touch-centric Android app to include a home screen widget, recognition for phone numbers and email addresses, and a few other fixes that make it easier to use. More »
Website musicForProgramming(); distributes a series of roughly hour-long ambient music mixes intended to “aid concentration and increase productivity” while you work. More »
iOS: One of the first things you’ll need if you want to try the Pomodoro productivity technique is a timer that will count down during the periods you’re supposed to be working and alert you when it’s time to take a break. PomodoroPro for iOS is a good-looking and elegant Pomodoro timer for the iPhone that will keep you on track and keep you motivated to continue. More »
Having more work on your plate than hours in the day is nothing new for most of us. The key to managing our workload is, sometimes, to learn what can fall off and what needs immediate attention, and let the unimportant work slide, whether we have explicit approval or not. Former CEO (and current Chairman of Thomas Nelson Publishers) Michael Hyatt describes this as “intentional neglect”, an essential part of triaging your workload. More »
It may seem like common sense that you need to get your ideas out of your head to act on them, but how many of us walk around with an always-updating to-do list in our heads only to forget one of them later? One of the basic principles of GTD and other productivity systems is that your first step is to get your ideas and to-dos out of your head and onto paper. More »
Windows/Android: Comprehensive to-do suite Producteev has not only updated its web app and iPhone app, it’s now also showing some love for Windows 7 and Android users. The cross-platform task management app works great for group tasks and has a revamped interface. More »
In order to get your best work done, you need to buckle down, eliminate as many distractions as possible, and focus on each task at a time as much as possible. However, few of us have the luxury to wall ourselves off from the world all day. More »
One of the fundamental principles of GTD is that you should be able to quickly look at your list of to-dos and easily see what your next items are and what you’re currently working on, all wrapped up in a service that makes it easy to enter your ideas and to-dos. Pegby is a new web app that’s designed with that goal in mind. More »
