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Every tip is one concrete thing you will do better or faster. Filter by what you use and who you are — or just search.
In-depth guide · 17 min
A guide with prompts: research the other side in twenty minutes, build arguments and a walk-away point, rehearse the hardest part, and get a one-pager.
In-depth guide · 17 min
A complete guide with prompts for hard critique: untraining AI from agreeing with you, decision premortems, red-teaming a proposal — and when to ignore it.
In-depth guide · 17 min
A complete guide to standing instructions: what belongs in them, how they differ from a Project, testing them — and ready sets for common professions.
In-depth guide · 23 min
A complete guide with prompts: get a script written and explained, run it safely on a copy of your data, and build a tool library — without writing code.
In-depth guide · 20 min
A complete guide with prompts: what to upload to a Project, how to write its instructions, when to start a new one, and maintenance so it doesn't lie.
In-depth guide · 14 min
A complete guide with prompts: describe a formula in plain words and get a working fix, debug errors, design a table that holds, and when to use a macro.
In-depth guide · 17 min
A complete guide with prompts: why one example beats a thousand words of instructions, when one or three, ready templates, and your own style bank.
In-depth guide · 18 min
A guide with prompts: steering translation with your own samples, translation versus localization, back-translation checks, and glossary workflows.
In-depth guide · 19 min
A complete guide with prompts: phrases for sharpening, narrowing, and shifting tone, variants instead of guessing, and when to scrap a chat and restart.
In-depth guide · 15 min
A guide with prompts: the brief method for a one-minute draft, ready asks for the hardest email types, teaching AI your voice, and a pre-send check.
A week with a time tracker (Toggl and similar) reveals the gap between what you think you do and reality. It's usually a shock — and the start of a change.
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Type “p1” and the task turns red, “tomorrow 9am” and it gets a due date. Quick Add understands it all in one line.
Ideas and tasks drop into your Inbox without a second thought about where they belong. Once a day, you empty it — into projects, or into the trash.
Apps like Cold Turkey or Freedom block chosen websites for a set period. Decide once, and it holds for the whole morning.
Ctrl+P
Quick search finds a page by title and by content. In a growing workspace, it's the only navigation that makes sense.
/
The / key opens the block menu — headings, tables, reminders, columns. Notion's core control.
Ctrl+H
Ctrl+H can also replace formatting, double spaces, and paragraph marks. Cleaning up a whole document in a few clicks.
Data separated by commas or semicolons crammed into one column? The Text to Columns wizard splits it correctly.
Ctrl+Alt+V
Ctrl+Alt+V opens Paste Special — paste results without formulas, formats without content, or transpose a table.
Select the cells and look down at the status bar — the sum, average, and count are always right there.
Ctrl+PageDown
Move between the sheets of a workbook from the keyboard — no clicking the tabs at the bottom.
A revenue summary by month and category out of thousands of rows? Insert → PivotTable, then drag three fields.
Alt+=
Cursor below a column of numbers, Alt+equals — and SUM is done, range and all.
You don't have to drag a formula across a thousand rows — double-clicking the little black square copies it down to the end of the adjacent data.
Data validation turns a cell into a menu of allowed values. Task statuses or categories can no longer be typed wrong.
Data → Remove Duplicates cleans up a list of contacts or line items — and tells you how many it deleted.
Ctrl+;
Ctrl+semicolon inserts today's date as a fixed value — unlike the TODAY() function, it doesn't change.
Alt+Enter
Enter jumps to the next cell — Alt+Enter creates a line break inside the same one. No more broken layouts.
View → Freeze Panes keeps the table header locked at the top no matter how far you scroll.
The newer replacement for VLOOKUP searches in either direction, doesn't break when a column gets inserted, and has a built-in “not found” fallback.