Did you know a linear calendar can help when other ways to visualise the year cause you to lose track of time? Read on to get our thoughts on why a yearly calendar with months arranged in lines is useful. The Calendar This one-page calendar for year 2021 with its months in lines is meant to be a quick but powerful overview. It doesn't take up a lot of space at all on your wall and the ... View Post
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How To Use Apple Pencil And Our Lessons Learned
Are you on the hunt for a stylus? There are other alternatives out there as well when precision work is necessary, but for the Apple fans among us the simple design of an Apple product may call so strongly that we never take those competitive versions into consideration. Last year we wrote "Go Digital, Stay On Paper, Or Choose Both?" here on the blog and this is in continuum of that post. Before ... View Post
5 Reasons Why You Should Love Competition
Outsmart the competition, sell more than the competition, grow bigger than the competition, get more funding than the competition! Competition, competition, competition. Bad, elbow tactics, win, win, win. No, let's talk about why you should love having competitors to pull focus back on yourself in strategic thinking! We will walk you through five different angles of viewing your competitors as an ... View Post
Go Digital, Stay On Paper, Or Choose Both?
The big question in productivity today is often whether to go fully digital, choose part paper and part digital, or risk being an organising dinosaur by doing nothing digitally. Then there are also the lucky ones of us, who seem to have a hard time choosing, thereby jumping from tool to another without ever truly sticking to one. Because the latter can be frustrating at best, we want to explore a ... View Post
Home Offices No. 1
When you work from home, having a proper place to do so usually helps increase productivity. And if said space, whether its own room or a corner of one, is clean and organised, even better! Here is our first collection of ten images for you to draw inspiration from. Without further ado, home office (corners)! The Results Of Decorating, Cleaning And Organising A Space We will jump right in ... View Post
The Pomodoro Technique And Our Take On It
Lots of people have tried the Pomodoro Technique already, some have heard of it but never given it a shot, and others go "Say what?" Yes, Pomodoro. A helpful tool in knowledge work in particular, but also ingenius for something you loathe doing at home. Oh the possibilities :) We will discuss how it works, the psychology behind it, options for tracking your results, whether on paper or digitally, ... View Post
Productivity When Peak Performance Is No Option
What does high productivity look like when a person has one or several challenges to overcome in everyday life? And how is it objectively "good enough" in comparison to another, a so-called peak performer? How do we prevent comparison from happening and instead nurture and celebrate all performances from people wanting to be an active part of working life in their own unique way? Finally, how do ... View Post
Introducing Productivity
Have you tried a dozen different methods to keep track of your appointments and projects? And have you ever wondered how on earth you would go from idea to finished project? How about feeling as if procrastination is your best friend? We have been there. It is a work in progress as technology evolves and paper slowly decreases in popularity, but the key point is consistency, not your tool of ... View Post