Password managers make it easy to use complex, relatively unbreakable passwords across dozens or even hundreds of accounts without our needing to remember them.
Reviewing the apps management topics from April: Purge the unused. Silence the distractors. React immediately. Adapt freely. One app, one purpose.
Reviewing the task management topics from March: Clarify your commitments. Schedule your anchors. Collect your to-dos. Review religiously.
Reviewing the photo topics from February: Find your media. Pick your platform. Centralize your collection. Organize something!
Reviewing the email topics from January: Archive everything. Unsubscribe without mercy. Simplify your folders. Quick-clean routine. Leverage good tools!
Our brains can't switch contexts like a computer. There are consequences, namely reduced productivity and lost focus, which is much harder to recover.
It might seem counterintuitive, but allowing yourself only a tiny to-do list to focus on each day gives you a better chance of achieving your goals.
Whatever you pay attention to is what you will remember, what you will be able to act on, accomplish well, enjoy, and learn. These are your life experiences.
Acknowledging limitations is empowering, and just "trying harder" is not always a good plan. Figure out what matters, then don't feel guilty about the rest.
Assign every app a single, specific role in your mind, and avoid blurred lines as you use them. This significantly reduces redundancy and confusion.
Everyone is different. How do you know if something that works for me will work for you? You probably don't, until you try it. But then what if it doesn't?
After minimizing interruptions as much as possible, how do you process the ones that make it though so they have as little impact as possible?
