It’s probably safe to say we’d all love to get more results from less effort. Productivity is that elusive blend of efficiency and expertise that allows you to tick off to-do list items and hit gargantuan goals at an unthinkable pace. Here’s a collection of our best advice on how to work smarter, not harder.
I’ve always been a night owl. Hands down, my favorite part of the day is the quiet hours between 10pm and 2am. It’s not that I don’t enjoy work or love spending time with my family, I do. But when the world quiets down, dishes are washed, lunches are packed and the family is down […]
Fight, flight, freeze or flow – how our brains keep us from focusing Read More »
Living a quantified life is all about numbers. Regardless of our passions, hobbies or professions, we can generally find some metric by which to measure our performance. For a writer, (luckily?) the metric is crushingly obvious and never nearly as high as we’d like. For writers, word count is king. While it’s nice to have
Boost your writing efficiency by stepping back from the keyboard Read More »
“Sitting is the new smoking.” It’s an increasingly common and playfully snarky phrase coined by Dr. James Levine, director of the Mayo Clinic-Arizona State University Obesity Solutions Initiative. For anyone who’s slogged through a long, sloop-shouldered day at a desk, the dangers of sitting are intuitively easy to believe. Standing desks are becoming an iconic
Standing desks increase productivity (but you have to do it right) Read More »
Middle of last year we rolled out a feature allowing alerts to start a FocusTime session. Not to brag much, but it is an awesome feature that you may want to try if you are a premium user. Sometimes those distracting activities are too tempting, “what just happened on …“, and the thought of focusing with, “let
Tip: Use RescueTime alerts to block distracting websites when you need to focus! Read More »
This post covers how (and why) to use Zapier and RescueTime to create a persistent record of your completed Trello cards. If you’d like to jump directly to the setup instructions, skip to the end. Want to learn more about spending your time well and doing more meaningful work? Sign up for our newsletter to get
How I use Trello, Zapier and RescueTime to keep track of what I’ve been doing Read More »
A few months ago we added support for using RescueTime’s Alert notifications within Zapier, a service that helps people automate their favorite web apps. We found that it was really, really useful, so we’ve added two additional triggers and an action to the RescueTime app on Zapier. These improvements will open up a bunch of new ways
Zapier integration update: Daily summary reports and Automated highlight logging Read More »
I’m jealous of people who work in coffee shops. Not because I dream of pulling espresso shots and doing pour-overs (although they’re delicious. I wish I had those skills!). The thing I’m jealous of is how easy it is to just know how things are going at any given moment when working in that environment.
A little hack that made our remote team not feel so remote anymore Read More »
Working from home is certainly a great experience, and simply put not for everyone. I tend to feel cruddy when I get distracted and am not giving a full day of effort. Last week I got stuck in a rut where I was more distracted than I demand of myself. I started a massive open
Build up productivity momentum early Read More »
You can now use your RescueTime Alerts to automate your favorite web applications, thanks to our new integration with Zapier.com. Say what? Probably easiest to show some examples. Here are a few things we’ve been doing around the RescueTime offices that illustrate some of what you can do with this integration. 1. Deliver alerts differently
RescueTime alerts are now 280 times more awesome (thanks, Zapier!) Read More »
Last month, I spent some time digging around with two big personal datasets of mine – my RescueTime logs and the information about my physical activity and sleep that I’ve collected with my FitBit. After comparing over 8.5 million steps and 5,000 hours of my sleep with around 7,000 hours of my RescueTime data, I
All work and no play (and no rest) makes me super unproductive Read More »
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