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In-depth guide · 17 min
A guide with prompts for an automatic chain: transcription, who-what-by-when tasks filed straight into your task manager, and the rules to set first.
In-depth guide · 18 min
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
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 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
A complete guide with prompts: a routine finds unanswered threads, tracks deadlines, and drafts polite reminders. AI writes the draft — you always send.
Win+←
Dragging windows with the mouse is slow. Win + arrows snap windows into halves and quarters of the screen.
Win+1
Open apps pinned to the taskbar by their position number. No more hunting with the mouse.
Win+D
One press hides every window and shows the desktop. A second press brings it all back.
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
The most famous shortcut, and most people only use half of it. Hold Alt and cycle through.
Win+P
Plugged in a projector and no picture shows up? Win + P switches multi-monitor modes instantly.
Win+L
The fastest security habit there is. One keypress and nobody can see what you're working on.
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.
(Impact × Urgency) / Effort — three numbers per task, and the database sorts itself by actual value.
The query (p1 | p2) & due:today shows only what actually matters today. You don't see the rest — and that's the point.
“every Monday at 10 #meetings p1” — Todoist picks up the date, recurrence, project, and priority straight from the text.
The trick isn't standing all day — it's alternating positions, plus a bit of movement that fits into your work without interrupting it.
A neck that hurts from a monitor set too low. A stand or arm for a few dollars fixes years of discomfort.
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.
Monitor, keyboard, network, charging — all through a single USB-C cable. Connecting your laptop stops being a five-minute ritual.
Client onboarding, publishing an article, the monthly close — a repeated process without a checklist means forgetting something, every time.
On Friday or Sunday, go through your calendar, tasks, and notes — close out loose ends, plan three priorities. Monday starts with clarity.
Not a list of twenty items, but three things that absolutely must get done today. Everything else is a bonus.
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.
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.
Switching between types of work costs energy. Grouping similar tasks into blocks saves dozens of minutes a day.
One simple rule that erases half your meetings: whoever calls the meeting sends an agenda and expected outcome in advance.
A shared document both sides keep adding to between meetings. The meeting has structure, and the history is easy to find.
A good assignment has four parts: what needs to exist, why, by when, and how you'll know it's done. Leave the process to the person doing it.
Three questions in a form on Friday: what went well, what's in progress, what's stuck. Suddenly the 45-minute status meeting is unnecessary.