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Startups Not Eating Each Other Like Cannibalistic Dogs
Saturday, May 18th, 2019
Huge thanks to Malcolm Ocean, Christina Willner, and »
Beeminder ♥ Toggl
Friday, September 7th, 2018
We have so many opinions about time tracking! To start, there are three fundamental ways to track your time: Manually Passively Stochastically For passive tracking, you should install RescueTime (and hook it... »
Beeminder ♥ Todoist
Friday, January 6th, 2017
Picking the right way to organize your to-do’s is a big decision. Paper & pencil, smartphone app, calendar, blank playing cards, or the old “in your head” method. A lot of folks use Todoist. While Todoist is fantastic for keeping track... »
What Is Willpower?
Monday, March 21st, 2016
Our previous post, “Ego Depletion Depletion,” generated a lot of discussion and I found I was contradicting myself on the question of what willpower is exactly. First a recap, hopefully in plainer English, about what all the fuss is about. A big finding in... »
Ego Depletion Depletion
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
This is crossposted on Mark Forster’s Get Everything Done blog. The big news in psychology this week is that Baumeister’s Ego Depletion model is bunk. At least it has failed to »
Get Things Done (Or Else!) With Beeminder and GTBee
Thursday, April 3rd, 2014
At its core, Beeminder is a tool for getting yourself to do things using money as an incentive. Most goals on Beeminder focus on making steady progress over time. But some goals, and some people, work better with a different model. Let’s say you have to call someone by the end of the day today, and... »
Beeminder ♥ Trello
Monday, October 29th, 2012
Lately at Beeminder we’ve been using Trello for just about everything. We use it to stage blog posts and track bugs and new features on the Beeminder API and website. The Beeminder iPhone... »
The One Must-Do Task Each Day
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
This is a guest post by Alice Harris. It is crossposted on Mark Forster’s Get Everything Done blog which we’re »
Get Everything Done
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
If you’re a connoisseur of productivity porn then you probably already know about Mark Forster and his Get Everything Done blog. Or you might know his various time management books, the most well-known being “Do It Tomorrow”. He’s also the inventor of the AutoFocus system, which has been featured more than once... »