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  • The Best (and Worst) Ways to Organize Your To-Do List

    The Best (and Worst) Ways to Organize Your To-Do List

    The to-do list can help keep you on track with everything you need to get done in life; or it can be an overwhelming, disorganized mess. There are better ways to organize your to-do list—or, rather, lists, plural. Because the best option is actually to have a few ongoing, fluid to-do lists that cover different…


  • Stop Using Spotlight on Your iPhone (and Do This Instead)

    Stop Using Spotlight on Your iPhone (and Do This Instead)

    Spotlight, once an essential tool in your iPhone productivity arsenal, has become nearly unusable on iOS 16. It sometimes displays search results almost instantly, but more often than not it takes a few seconds (or more) to find things. The latency is particularly noticeable on older iPhones, and the inconsistency of a once-reliable tool is…


  • Use This Shortcut to Expel Water From Your iPhone

    Use This Shortcut to Expel Water From Your iPhone

    Your iPhone is water-resistant, and its IP68 rating means it can survive a swim in up to six meters of water for as long as 30 minutes and things should still be fine. In theory. (This doesn’t mean you should use your phone as an underwater camera; if water does make its way inside, you’ll…