33 posts tagged: Productivity
2025 year in review
2025 was a year of unexpected gifts.
Building a cyberbrain
A living document on AI tools, productivity, and learning systems.
How to think outside your brain
Set your brain free to connect while your notes handle the storage.
Discipline-free systems beat forced productivity
Design workflows that make discipline optional.
Three note types that transform thinking
Build a note reservoir so blank pages disappear.
Never start writing from scratch again
If you're staring at a blank page, you've already made a mistake. You started too late.
Your note-taking system is sabotaging your creativity
Your carefully curated collection is killing your creativity instead of feeding it.
Meaningful work
Mindfulness in choosing work that matters.
Perfect is the enemy of done
Making peace with 80% being good enough.
Adopting the Notion paradigm
Notion might be a little disorienting.
Add Notion to your workflow to boost productivity
Understand how to fit Notion in your workflow to boost productivity.
How my daily journal evolved into a daily log
I have a habit of making daily journal entries.
8 unproductive habits
Identify and address our unproductive habits.
How to read non-fiction
I wished I discovered how to read non-fiction earlier.
Personal wiki with Bear app
Popularly known as personal knowledge management (PKM).
Liberty of time
Time is a unique currency.
How to read
Consuming information doesn’t mean you're learning.
The fallacy of efficiency
Being efficient doesn’t mean we are productive or performance well.
Compartmentalising
My habit of compartmentalising routines helps me to focus better.
Mac iCloud Drive
Some thoughts on having the Mac file system on iCloud Drive.
Hanyu pinyin input on macOS
I discovered a quick way to key in Hànyǔ pīnyīn tones on a Mac.
Standing work desk
I have a habit of standing while I work so I use a standing work desk.
Shortness of time
We know time is limited, yet we're guilty of wasting it.
Why I switched from Ulysses to Bear
Bear replaced Ulysses as my writing app. I’ve found true love.