- Connect your daily tasks with your long-term goals
- Keep knowledge and goals in one place
- Focus on consistency
- Have a plan to stay focused
- Introduction
- What Is a Digital Mind Garden?
- Obsidian – Your Garden’s Foundation
- Timestripe – Your Garden’s Rhythm
- Are.na – Your Garden’s Muse
- Bringing It All Together
- The Myth of Multitasking
- The Toll on Your Brain
- Why Single-Tasking Wins
- How to Break the Multitasking Habit
- The Path to Clarity
- Why Gamified Summer Goals Work
- Try This Summer Guide
- Summer Challenge Prompt
- My Five-Year Experiment with UTC
- Take Control of Your Time
- Why Bother With Weekly Planning?
- What Weekly Planning Actually Is
- Finding Your Sweet Spot
- How to Actually Plan Your Week
- Using Timestripe for Weekly Planning
- The Planning Mistakes That’ll Drive You Crazy
- Ready to Take Control of Your Week?
- What Is Burnout? What Is Laziness?
- 6 Signs You’re Burnt Out
- Why the Confusion Persists
- How to Take Action
- Preventing Burnout, Embracing Rest
- The Power of a System
- Plan: Lay the Foundation
- Act: Make It Happen
- Refine: Keep It Sharp
- Personalization Prompt: Design Your System
- Yaeji
- Oklou
- Aphex Twin
- Tycho
- Afrika Bambaataa
- Final Chord
- Why Breaks Matter
- Try these five strategies
- Own Your Workday
- The Birth of Digital Calendars
- The Rise of Web-Based Calendars
- How Timestripe Change the Way We Plan
- Why Rewarding Yourself for Achievements Actually Works
- The Benefits of Celebrating Success
- The Dark Side: When Self-Rewards Backfire
- How Companies Exploit Your Reward System
- How to Reward Yourself the Right Way: 7 Proven Strategies
- Healthy Ways to Celebrate Success Without Breaking the Bank
- Building Your Personal Reward System
- The Psychology of Sustainable Self-Celebration
- Finding Your Reward Rhythm in 2025
- The Ultimate Goal
- Major Milestones
- Specifing Tasks
- The Logical Sequence
- Making a Schedule
- Why Gen Z is Embracing Micro-Retirement
- Challenges of Micro-Retirement
- Benefits of Micro-Retirement
- The Science of Overthinking
- Pathways to Decisive Action
- The Decision Journal
- Timeless Takeaways
- Planning mistakes
- Lessons from Patrick
- Laptop Stand
- Pomodoro Timer
- Keyboard and Mouse
- Fidget Toy
- Desk Lamp
- The Shift from Quiet Quitting
- Tips for a manager
- Why Employers Should Worry
- How Companies Can Stop the Bleeding
- Adapt or Watch Talent Go
- The Benefits of Reverse Mentoring
- How to Implement Reverse Mentoring
- What's the Conclusion
- Writing a List
- Emile
- How Music Affects Our Brain
- What Types of Music Work Best
- Exploring Noise
- Why Some People Can't Work with Music
- Finding the Balance
- Time-blocking
- Definition of Time Blocking
- Benefits of Time Blocking
- Meet Dan
- How Does Time Blocking Work
- Meet Sarah
- Using Timestripe for Time Blocking
- Recommendations for Effective Time Blocking
- Common Time Blocking Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Advanced Time Blocking Strategies
- The Metaphor Behind "Eating the Frog"
- The Core Concept and Its Origins
- Key Benefits
- Step-by-Step Implementation Guide
- Challenges of Remote Work
- Remote by Design
- Gitlab & Automattic Radical Transparency
- Effective Approach
- Focused Thinking
- Diffuse Thinking
- Integrating Two Ways Thinking
- The Stress Trap
- Making Deadlines Your Ally
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- Horizons
- Collapse Lists
- Goals sorting
- Subgoals
- Recurring goals
- Filters
- Dividers
- Colour coding
- Calendar
- Rich text formatting
- Tags
- Sharing Options
- Embeds
- Spaces
- Boards
- Templates
- Climbs
- The Progress Centre
- Team View
- Comments
- Quick schedule
- Keyboard Shortcuts
- Fullscreen view
- Recent items
- Quick Edit Shortcut
- Search
- Insights
- Backgrounds
- Dark mode
- Integrations
- Google Chrome Extension
- Mobile app
- Overview
- Clock
- Task Management & Organization
- Collaboration Features
- User Experience & Design
- Unique Features
- Pricing
- Final Thoughts
- Compare
- Collaboration Features
- User Experience & Design
- Best For
- Why it Matters
- Common Pitfalls
- How Boards & Climbs help
- Step-by-Step Implementation
- Intro
- Why managers become seagulls
- Is it really that bad
- What to Do if a Seagull Has Built a Nest in the Office
- From teams' perspective
- Push for Clarity in Tasks
- Point Out Managerial Mistakes
- From upper management perspective
- What to do if the seagull is you
- How to prevent "seagulling"
- Key Analytics Features
- Activity Tracking
- Streak Monitoring
- Task Management Metrics
- Temporal Analysis
- Completion Rate Tracking
- Team Performance Optimization
- What is Obsidian
- What is Surfing plugin
- Use Timestripe in Obsidian
- Comments on tasks
- Task Assignments
- Efficiency Outcome
- User Experience and Design
- How it works
- How to sync
- Step 0: Understanding a roadmap
- Step 1: Define top-level goals
- Step 2: Break down the plan
- Step 3: Connect the plan
- Step 4: Big picture & details
- Horizons Mode
- Calendar Mode
- Unique Features
Stop being busy: Proven ways to get things done
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Explore the most popular productivity techniques and start using them right away: each of these techniques comes with a guide and a template.
OKR: set a goal and find the way to achieve it
OKR helps you to set a goal and decide how to get there. It saves time and keeps the whole team focused and motivated.
Pomodoro Technique: stay concentrated
Pomodoro is great if you need to focus on a task when you find it hard to get down to work. It helps you focus on one task at a time and adds a bit of gamification to your daily routine.
GTD: declutter your mind
Use GTD, or Getting Things Done to organise and track the tasks you need to focus on, manage your time and energy, and keep your mind clean.
Batching: get more things done in less time
Batching is the process of grouping tasks together so that you can complete them all at once, rather than switching between tasks that belong to different areas.
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