Productivity
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Use ‘Shortery’ to Add Automations to Your MacOS Shortcuts
The Shortcuts app for Mac is missing one of the iPhone’s best features: Automations. The Mac app Shortery bridges the gap. Shortcuts on the iPhone offers an “Automations” tab, which allows you to launch shortcuts automatically when certain things happen. You can, for example, disable your alarms when you leave the house (a feature I…
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Use the ‘GTD’ Method to Actually Get Through Your To-do List
The Getting Things Done (GTD) method has been around for years, frequently cropping up on productivity blogs and forums since David Allen first released Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity in 2001. Since then, he’s updated the book a little and the concept has continued to proliferate. Here’s how to use it in…
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Beat the ‘Planning Fallacy’ to Be More Productive
Even if you’ve never heard of the planning fallacy, you’ve likely experienced it. It’s a phenomenon in which a person or team underestimates how long a task will take and what it will cost in money or resources, plus overestimates the actual benefits it will yield. If you’ve ever waited until the last minute to…
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How to Choose the Right SSD to Buy
Whether you’re upgrading your PC or building a new one altogether, understanding how to choose between the various types of SSDs out there can be a bit confusing. Luckily, it’s actually a lot simpler than it seems and depends mostly on what your hardware will support. In this article, I’ll break down the different form…