Tips & tricks

Clipboard with history: paste anything you've ever copied

Win+V

Windows can remember everything you copy. Just press Win+V instead of Ctrl+V.

In-depth guide · 21 min

Evening routine: AI pulls every promise you made out of your inbox

A guide with prompts: the routine tells a promise from a pleasantry, sweeps mail and meetings each evening — five minutes to approve. A human confirms.

In-depth guide · 19 min

Morning routine: reply drafts are waiting before you arrive

A complete guide with prompts: connect your mail, write rules in plain language, and cut morning email to fifteen minutes. AI drafts — only a human sends.

In-depth guide · 62 min

AI automation: the complete guide

Automation in plain language: triggers, actions, runs; Zapier vs. Make vs. n8n vs. Power Automate; ten scenarios with prompts, and when not to automate.

In-depth guide · 18 min

Friday: AI builds your weekly review, you skim it in five minutes

A complete guide with prompts: connect calendar, tasks, and mail, let AI build a Friday review and three priorities for next week. Decisions stay yours.

In-depth guide · 16 min

AI inbox triage: leave only what actually needs a human

A guide with prompts: action-based categories, an escalation rule so the boss's mail never vanishes, and a weekly audit. Move and label — never delete.

In-depth guide · 18 min

A calendar that defends itself: an AI scheduler instead of your willpower

A complete guide with prompts: write your priority rules in plain language, connect Google Calendar, and let AI watch collisions and plan time blocks.

In-depth guide · 18 min

The follow-up watchdog: AI remembers who never replied

A complete guide with prompts: a routine finds unanswered threads, tracks deadlines, and drafts polite reminders. AI writes the draft — you always send.

Two windows side by side in two seconds

Win+←

Dragging windows with the mouse is slow. Win + arrows snap windows into halves and quarters of the screen.

Win + 1 through 9: apps at a single keypress

Win+1

Open apps pinned to the taskbar by their position number. No more hunting with the mouse.

Delete word by word, not letter by letter

Ctrl+Backspace

Ctrl + Backspace deletes the whole word to the left, Ctrl + Delete the whole word to the right. Typos disappear in one go.

Alt + Tab: switch windows without touching the mouse

Alt+Tab

The most famous shortcut, and most people only use half of it. Hold Alt and cycle through.

Dictate instead of typing: you talk 3x faster

Win+H

Win + H on Windows, or the microphone on your phone's keyboard. Dictate a first draft of an email in a third of the time.

The Notion formula that sorts your backlog for you

(Impact × Urgency) / Effort — three numbers per task, and the database sorts itself by actual value.

Todoist filters: your own “important today” view

The query (p1 | p2) & due:today shows only what actually matters today. You don't see the rest — and that's the point.

Todoist: add a task in a single sentence

“every Monday at 10 #meetings p1” — Todoist picks up the date, recurrence, project, and priority straight from the text.

Smart home scene: Deep Work Mode in one tap

Lights, do-not-disturb, a timer, and music with a single command. A ritual that tells your brain “it's work time now.”

A height-adjustable desk: alternate, don't just stand

The trick isn't standing all day — it's alternating positions, plus a bit of movement that fits into your work without interrupting it.

Light controls your energy: bright mornings, warm evenings

A sunrise alarm clock and smart bulbs set your circadian rhythm better than willpower ever could.

Noise-cancelling headphones: focus and a signal, both at once

ANC headphones solve two problems at once: ambient noise, and coworkers who can't tell you don't want to be disturbed.

Top edge of your monitor at eye level

A neck that hurts from a monitor set too low. A stand or arm for a few dollars fixes years of discomfort.

A second charger lives in your bag

One charger stays at your desk, a second one lives permanently in your bag. A few bucks buys the end of endless repacking and forgetting.

A docking station: one cable and you're working

Monitor, keyboard, network, charging — all through a single USB-C cable. Connecting your laptop stops being a five-minute ritual.

A checklist for anything you do a second time

Client onboarding, publishing an article, the monthly close — a repeated process without a checklist means forgetting something, every time.

The weekly review: 30 minutes that run your whole week

On Friday or Sunday, go through your calendar, tasks, and notes — close out loose ends, plan three priorities. Monday starts with clarity.

Three tasks for the day: pick in the morning, check in the evening

Not a list of twenty items, but three things that absolutely must get done today. Everything else is a bonus.

Timeboxing: put your tasks straight into the calendar

A task with no time attached is just a wish. Drag your tasks into concrete calendar slots — and give your day a budget, like money.

The shutdown ritual: close the day so it doesn't follow you

Five minutes at the end of work: write down loose ends, glance at tomorrow, close the laptop. Work stays at work — even in your head.

Batch similar tasks: emails with emails, calls with calls

Switching between types of work costs energy. Grouping similar tasks into blocks saves dozens of minutes a day.

Proposal, contract, and invoice templates: do it once, properly

Every proposal written from scratch is an hour of lost time. A template with marked spots to fill in cuts it to ten minutes.