Superorganizers

How smart people organize what they know.

Jul 11, 2020

Is it new or does it suck?

Hey! Dan here. If you're an introspective person, you probably spend a lot of time asking yourself how things are going: Do I like this? Do

Jul 8, 2020

Scott Belsky’s Elephant List

Adobe’s CPO on relentlessly taking action even on the problems no one is talking about

Jul 2, 2020

The Opportunity in Productivity

A tour of the big ideas in new productivity app mymind

Jun 26, 2020

The Notetaking Cold War

Digging into the philosophical roots of the battle between Tiago Forte and Conor White-Sullivan

Jun 23, 2020

Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once

How to efficiently get what you need out of reading, multiple books at a time

Jun 18, 2020

How to never lose another memory again

The co-creator of Flow State explains what happens when you put your entire life in bullet points.

Jun 9, 2020

I’m Married to an Emergency Room Doctor in New York City

How fighting the pandemic has changed our lives forever

Jun 5, 2020

Organize Your Week with the Weekly Priority Sheet

This week’s article is dedicated to the memory of George Floyd and the millions of people who have suffered racial injustice in America. Na

May 29, 2020

How I Use Screen Time on iOS

Screen Time on iOS is like ice cream cake: so full of promise, and yet also always so underwhelming. It’s probably Apple’s most valuable so

May 22, 2020

The Fourfold Book Index

How I Take Book Notes

May 16, 2020

Week 25

25 weeks ago, in November 2019, I wrote this in my Notion: - Write and publish a Superorganizers interview once a week - Find a partner to w

May 15, 2020

Polina Marinova Pays Attention to the Little Things

How the creator of The Profile learned to read people — and used it to create a popular newsletter

May 7, 2020

Review: Centered.app

The mindful todo list app that's been keeping me focused this week

May 5, 2020

Stop Trying to Make Hard Work Easy

Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable, explains how to cope even when work is hard.

May 1, 2020

Special Deal for Members: Supercharge Your Productivity Course

My good friend Khe Hy, author of RadReads, is opening up the next batch of his course Supercharge Your Productivity for early birds. I negot

May 1, 2020

A system you can keep for life

“I need to get organized so I can do my work,” people say to me often. I want to write a novel, but first I need to organize my notes. I w

Apr 29, 2020

Nat Eliason’s Roam Screencast

This is a first! I’m releasing the full recording of my interview with Nat Eliason for your viewing pleasure. You’ll hear me interview Nat

Apr 29, 2020

Nat Eliason is Living in The Matrix

Nat reveals the Roam setup that he uses to run his life

Apr 28, 2020

If your system was a house, would you want to live in it?

In his book Notes on the Synthesis of Form Christopher Alexander writes about how to design buildings: “[A good design is an] effort to ach

Apr 23, 2020

Introducing Superbox

A little tool to help you solve your biggest problems

Apr 23, 2020

Use a Zwicky Box To Solve Hard Problems in Unexpected Ways

A simple tool to help you beat your own psychology and reliably create novel solutions to any challenge

Apr 17, 2020

You have to get good before you get better

Two Shorts: Get good then get better, Kevin Yien's OKR template

Apr 16, 2020

Kevin Yien’s Calendar Design Template

In Productivity for Parents, Kevin Yien described how he used this template to help him integrate his parenting responsibilities with his c

Apr 16, 2020

Productivity for Parents

Square’s Restaurant Product Lead on integrating career and family