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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.
Insert → Checkbox turns a range of cells into an interactive list — and you can attach formatting and formulas to it.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H
Google Sheets and Docs save every single change. Ctrl+Alt+Shift+H opens a timeline — and you can revert to any point.
A filter view filters data just for you — everyone else in the shared sheet sees everything unchanged.
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.
Duplicate values, overdue deadlines, or below-average results highlight themselves — you just define the rule.
Ctrl+E
Type one example into the next column (say, a name pulled from an email address) and Ctrl+E fills in the rest to match. No formulas.
Ctrl+T
Ctrl+T turns a range into a “smart” table — automatic filters, formatting for new rows, and readable formulas.
An empty calendar is an invitation to meetings. Block off your mornings for deep work before someone else does it for you.
F4
One key, two superpowers — repeating your last action and toggling dollar signs in a formula.