Superorganizers

How smart people organize what they know.

Aug 22, 2020

Organizing Superorganizers

Happy Saturday! For a long time I’ve wanted to make the Superorganizers archive more useful. There’s a ton of information in there, but the

Aug 20, 2020

How Josh Kaufman Does Research 

The author of The Personal MBA shares his process for finding answers hiding in plain sight

Aug 13, 2020

5 Ways to Get the Most Out of iOS

Examining the hidden gems inside of your iPhone

Aug 11, 2020

The CEO with an Empty Calendar

How the founder of Doist manages a team of 80 without meetings

Jul 31, 2020

Follow your heart — with caveats

“Follow your heart” is squishy advice.  It’s a Goop headline. It’s a bumper sticker. It’s something you imagine Adam Neumann plastering on

Jul 25, 2020

How Anne-Laure Le Cunff Wrote 200 Articles In One Year

Mindful productivity helps her stay prolific without burning out

Jul 23, 2020

How New Ideas Happen

“The first step to a new cosmogony is a step back” — Paul Feyerbend, Against Method Raise your hand if you’ve murdered an idea.  I have. It

Jul 11, 2020

Is it new or does it suck?

A lot of people ask me for advice on how to get started writing. The pattern I see is fairly repetitive: They get inspired by something. The

Jul 8, 2020

Scott Belsky’s Elephant List

Adobe’s CPO on relentlessly taking action even on the problems no one is talking about

Jul 2, 2020

The Opportunity in Productivity

A tour of the big ideas in new productivity app mymind

Jun 26, 2020

The Notetaking Cold War

Digging into the philosophical roots of the battle between Tiago Forte and Conor White-Sullivan

Jun 23, 2020

Surgical Reading: How to Read 12 Books at Once

How to efficiently get what you need out of reading, multiple books at a time

Jun 18, 2020

How to never lose another memory again

The co-creator of Flow State explains what happens when you put your entire life in bullet points.

Jun 9, 2020

I’m Married to an Emergency Room Doctor in New York City

How fighting the pandemic has changed our lives forever

Jun 5, 2020

Organize Your Week with the Weekly Priority Sheet

This week’s article is dedicated to the memory of George Floyd and the millions of people who have suffered racial injustice in America. Na

May 29, 2020

How I Use Screen Time on iOS

Screen Time on iOS is like ice cream cake: so full of promise, and yet also always so underwhelming. It’s probably Apple’s most valuable so

May 22, 2020

The Fourfold Book Index

How I Take Book Notes

May 16, 2020

Week 25

25 weeks ago, in November 2019, I wrote this in my Notion: - Write and publish a Superorganizers interview once a week - Find a partner to w

May 15, 2020

Polina Marinova Pays Attention to the Little Things

How the creator of The Profile learned to read people — and used it to create a popular newsletter

May 7, 2020

Review: Centered.app

The mindful todo list app that's been keeping me focused this week

May 5, 2020

Stop Trying to Make Hard Work Easy

Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable, explains how to cope even when work is hard.

May 1, 2020

Special Deal for Members: Supercharge Your Productivity Course

My good friend Khe Hy, author of RadReads, is opening up the next batch of his course Supercharge Your Productivity for early birds. I negot

May 1, 2020

A system you can keep for life

“I need to get organized so I can do my work,” people say to me often. I want to write a novel, but first I need to organize my notes. I w

Apr 29, 2020

Nat Eliason’s Roam Screencast

This is a first! I’m releasing the full recording of my interview with Nat Eliason for your viewing pleasure. You’ll hear me interview Nat