I’ve been using a reMarkable tablet nonstop for the past week. I moved all my to-do lists there. All notes on reMarkable are organized into notebooks so I now have a notebook just for my to-do lists. I created separate notebooks for all my projects that I am working on. One more notebook with weird…
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Make your first 100 mistakes
Quality doesn’t matter, quantity does. It’s better to do 100 drawings than spend all that time on a single drawing. Starting a blog is scary, but I knew I would only get better if I wrote a lot. The first 100 designs are going to be awful, get them out of the way as soon…
[Continue Reading]Complete small tasks right away
Do you know the 2-minute productivity rule? It goes like this: If a task takes 2 minutes or less to complete, then do it now. I first read it in Getting Things Done by David Allen which is a very useful book and I recommend it to everyone. I like all the productivity rules and…
[Continue Reading]One thing at a time
I try various methods to fight off distractions and to stop switching between tasks. My recent tactic is to write each item from my to-do list on its own piece of paper. I get to work only on the one that is on top of the stack. It’s easier to concentrate on the task at…
[Continue Reading]Eisenhower Matrix
If you don’t know what an Eisenhower Matrix is, it’s a tactic to decide what to work on next. You can put each task into the correct category based on whether the task is urgent or not, and important or not. So for me writing a blog post is urgent and important each day. And…
[Continue Reading]Best way to take notes
There is one app that I use every day, many times a day — Roam Research. And I can’t overstate how vital this tool is for me. Roam is a note-taking tool but on their website, they advertise it as “a tool for thought” and they might be right. It certainly feels that the way…
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