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27 archived guides.
How to Be Productive While Unemployed: A Practical System
How to be productive while unemployed or between careers: rebuild the deadlines, review, and stall-detection your job used to provide.
How to Be Productive at Work With the 2-Item Rule
A backup scan found 41 abandoned tasks. Capping work-in-progress at 2 items per project fixed it. How to be productive at work, with real numbers.
Why Your Notes Never Get Found—How to Be Productive
Your notes pile up but vanish when you need them. Learn the one-line index rewrite that makes a note system—and how to be productive—finally compound.
How to Be Productive With ADHD When Ideas Outrun Action
Be productive with ADHD by rationing starts, not ideas: cap active tasks at two, keep idea capture unlimited, and log every failure as it happens.
Best Way to Track Stalled Projects: Apps vs Ledger
Habit apps or a plain-text ledger? A first-hand comparison of what each one actually records about stalled projects — and which one restarts them.
How to Use ChatGPT to Change Your Life: The Log Method
How to use ChatGPT to change your life: the failure-log loop that let a non-coder ship real software. Format, steps, and the limits, explained.
Best System to Track Goals and Tasks: 3 Compared
Notion vs Obsidian vs a plain text ledger. A comparison of the best system to track goals and tasks — judged on one thing: does stalled work start moving again?
How to Organize Notes So You Can Find Them Later
Index notes by symptom, not topic. A practical method for organizing notes so you can find them at the moment you need them, with a before/after index table.
How to Quit a Project Without Guilt: 30-Day Review
How to quit a project without guilt using a 30-day discard review: the weekly checklist, the keep/discard line, and why most surfaced items get dropped.
How to Stop Starting Projects and Not Finishing Them
You don't lack discipline — you lack a cap on starts. A backup scan surfaced 41 abandoned tasks. Here is the 2-item rule that fixed it, step by step.
Work in Progress Limit: Personal Productivity Rule of 2
The two-task rule caps started work at two items per project. Why a work in progress limit beats any to-do list, with the exact intake question to use.
How to Take Notes That You Actually Use (and Reopen)
Why your notes app never gets reopened, and how to take notes that you actually use: index every note by the symptom you feel, not by its topic.
How to Build a Personal Knowledge System You Can Search
How to build a personal knowledge system that actually gets searched: index every note by the symptom you had, not the topic it belongs to. With before/after examples.
How to Be Productive in Life: Index Notes by Symptom
How to be productive in life with a second brain you actually use: index every note by the symptom you'll feel later, not the topic. Paired rewrites inside.
How to Be Productive When Learning a New Skill
A beginner's system for how to be productive when learning a new skill: ship something real, log every failure, and turn the log into a reusable checklist.
Pomodoro vs Timeboxing vs 90-Minute Blocks: 6-Week Test
Pomodoro vs timeboxing vs 90-minute blocks, tested for six weeks with logged focus minutes, interruptions, output and fatigue. See which method won.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 7 Methods Ranked
How to stop procrastinating, tested: I timed how fast 7 methods got me started on the same tasks. See the benchmark, a comparison table, and the winner.
How to Be Productive at Home: A 30-Day Experiment
I tracked 30 days of working from home—comparing deep-work blocks, time-blocking, and no-system days. Here's what actually raised my focused output.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 7 Tactics Ranked
How to stop procrastinating, tested for 3 weeks. We A/B tested Pomodoro, the 2-minute rule, and temptation bundling and ranked all 7 tactics by results.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 7 Methods Tested & Ranked
How to stop procrastinating for real: I ran a head-to-head test of Pomodoro, the 2-minute rule, time-blocking & temptation bundling. See the ranked results.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 3 Methods Tested
How to stop procrastinating: I tested the 5-Minute Rule, Pomodoro, and Time Blocking for three weeks. Focused minutes, start latency, and a winner table by task type.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 7 Methods We Tested
How to stop procrastinating, ranked by task completion. We ran a two-week self-test on 7 methods and timed how fast each got us started. See the data.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 8 Methods Tested
How to stop procrastinating, tested. We timed 8 methods across 40 real work sessions and ranked them by start-delay cut and focused minutes gained.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 9 Techniques Ranked
How to stop procrastinating, ranked by results: I time-tracked 9 methods for 4 weeks and logged deep-work minutes. See what actually worked.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 8 Methods Ranked
How to stop procrastinating, backed by a head-to-head test of 8 methods. See task-start latency and focused minutes for each, plus which one won.
How to Stop Procrastinating: 9 Methods Ranked
How to stop procrastinating, ranked: 9 anti-procrastination methods scored by ease and time-to-start from my own logs, with the science behind each one.
How to Stop Procrastinating Studying: A Student Playbook
How to stop procrastinating studying with a field-tested student playbook: the 2-minute start, a real 2-week focus log, and habit tactics that stick.